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There have been multiple individuals who have proposed and refined the hypothesis of abiogenesis (the creation of living organisms from nonliving materials). Some of the big names include the proposal by Charles Darwin (as a sideline to his more famous Theory of Evolution), Alexander Oparin and JBS Haldane, all of whom were involved in the abstract logical underpinnings of the hypothesis. A great experiment in which the hypothesis was given some solid data is the famous Miller-Urey Experiment, during which the scientists reconstructed the "primordial soup", zapped it with lightning and observed the spontaneous formation of amino acids that could self-assemble into protein chains.

However, this has yet to be substantiated scientifically - it is primarily hypothetical and based in logical reasoning. There are numerous scientists around the world working to provide scientific data for this hypothesis.

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