ABSTRACT
Cultural historian Jacob Bronowski views the evolutionary progression of life as a build-up of chemical molecules beginning from the materials that boiled on the earth at its birth. He then states that Stanley Miller's 'beautiful experiment' answered the crucial question of how the very first building blocks of life might have been formed. David Attenborough is equally compelling. He offers the same kind of reductionist scenario of a distant time in the past. The American astronomer Carl Sagan addresses the question of how the very first molecules essential to the commencement of life might have been produced. Dawkins is a zoologist at Oxford University, and is admired by many for his ability to retell his version of the drama of life in a popular, readable style. The formation of amino acids from simple reducing gases such as methane, ammonia and hydrogen involves chemical reactions in which more energy is released than is consumed.
