Apology accepted, noma. The only reason I used the word 'opinion' was because that's the general term I use when referring to a person's thoughts on an uncertain, unresolved subject. Perhaps in the future, other terms such as 'theories' or 'hypotheses' should be used instead.
I would have to agree with Blondbeard. I don't really understand how life begins absolutely (with no preceding life to have generated it). However, life on Earth seems to have done exactly that, seemingly spontaneously appearing and creating more of itself. Perhaps it wasn't spontaneous. Perhaps it was the slow mutation of something typically inanimate into something animate. I really don't know, though. Perhaps I should study the origin of life more extensively, to get enough facts to reach a more logical and reasonable conclusion, with an exclusion of faith alone.
Lastly, although I didn't vote and instead chose to view the results of the poll, I would have put my vote somewhere between the first and second option. I have reviewed many objects of information and the theories they caused, but not all of them. For example, what is the carbon percentage of the sections of Europa most likely accessible to potential life? If the amount of carbon is low, life beyond bacteria such as hydrothermal-based tube worms or even pseudo-fish are unlikely to have formed well, assuming there were equally few elements that could have substituted carbon, such as phosphorus.
Here's a Wikipedia article on Abiogenesis, or the origin of life. I'm looking into it now. If any of you are interested, take a look at the information as well.
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