I need help! Please can anybody help me find a book or website on this?

Question

Does anyone know of any evidence for abiogenesis, the idea that a first living cell evolved from chemicals with no Creator involved?

I want to compare the abundant evidence that life had to have been created by an intelligent Creator with the evidence that life had no creator, but I can't. After years of searching, I have not found any valid evidence at all for a materialistic beginning for life.

From textbooks to origin of life researchers, those who teach abiogenesis offer only speculation where the evidence should be.

Does anyone have any evidence on this?? If not, I suppose the Bible is correct? Or at least an alternative....right?

David T

Answer 1

The supposed development of living organisms from nonliving matter. Also called autogenesis, spontaneous generation.

God Bless You

Answer 2

Im a creationist and a scientist and it appears to me that the Creator of this vast and unspeakable universe could make life come to existence according to His laws of nature and that life and its origin would, according to His will, remain inscrutable until such time that man is properly prepared spiritually to witness it and then, to perhaps, not tamper with it. No matter how you try creationists or scientists, you will not see lifes origin until you testify that the Creator could make this wonder appear according to His laws for the existence of life. It is as simple as that and no simpler. No need to gild the lily.

The creationist will have life magically appear minus the law and the atheist scientist will have it appear according to the law minus the Creator.

The Creator never breaks the laws of nature. How would that look to a naive humanity? Sorry but nobody flew up into the sky. Jesus, according to the bible was seen being carried away from the tomb. What returned to heaven? That which came from heaven, the intangible essence, the spirit of Jesus. God has always aided people to come to love the law by sending Messengers to reinforce and reveal more of it. Creationists free yourself from ridiculous myths and traditions, atheistic scientists cut away your unscientific habit of avoiding a scientific investigation into the idea of creation of everything by a Creator who does so according to law. Don't tell me your genetic memory is still smarting from the beating the popes gave you in the dark ages. Get over it. It was bs then and its bs now.

Answer 3

> evidence for abiogenesis
There is no direct evidence. Various experiments, beginning with the Miller-Urey experiment, show that it is possible.

> After years of searching, I have not found any valid evidence at all for a materialistic beginning for life.
This should not faze you. There is no direct evidence that life was created by the God of Abraham either. You've had to take Moses' word for it, and you know that Moses stretched the story about Noah's Ark.

Answer 4

Here you go.... This is pretty authoritative and thorough.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/originoflife.html

You call it speculation, but it has good evidence to back up the theory. (Theories allow scientists to make predictions, and this one is starting to pan out.)

Speculation based on nature causing life that has some evidential backing vs. speculation based on god with no evidence whatsoever.

Hmmmm....

Nature wins. It has a track record.

EDIT:
Oh, and by the way....are you telling me that when they are able to generate a living proto-cell from non-living matter, you're going to embrace the idea that God did not create life, but that it is an absolutely natural phenomenon?

I hope so. I hope that evidence plays some role in your thoughts about life.

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Answer 5

Note sure.

But one of the co-writers has since proved the theory wrong.

There's a 5 year time lag between science and education.

Answer 6

You're funny. Its weird how the minds of creationists warp around any evidence you throw at them; I could point you to the theories and experiments on aboitic synthesis of organic molecules and disproofs of the probability argument, but it would be nonproductive to try to free your mind. Perhaps you will free it yourself...eventually.

Answer 7

Scientists say they have all the answers because it makes them feel powerful. They couldn't understand the concept of creation and the origin of the universe if it sh** on their face.

Answer 8

http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=abiogenesis