Does it take more faith to believe life arose naturalistically or through an intelligent cause?

Question

Please explain the origin of life. How does non-living material assemble itself into living matter? Does this happen often? Has anyone ever observed this as it happened? What is the probability of linking together in the right sequence just one hundred amino acids to create one protein molecule by chance? Then you have to bring together by chance a collection of protein molecules--maybe two hundred of them--with just the right functions to get a typical living cell. How would we know it took billions of years to make a cell? Why wouldn’t it take faith to believe it happened over billions of years?

Answer 1

I see you are getting no answers to your question on abiogenisis. This is the biology section. We, strictly, deal with life AFTER it arose. But, ever since the synthesis of urea over a 150 years ago, we have known that life is a physio-chemical and electrical process. No " vital forces. " I would think you need to acquaint yourself with the basic reactivity of elements. Then you can get an inkling of the algorithmic processes involved here.

Answer 2

As a medical scientist, I have observed evolution in action, via resistance to antibiotics in bacterial cultures (over a matter of days). I can also tell you that there is a breadth of life you cannot imagine on Earth.
If you consider life purely from the chemical point of view, then the infective agents for Mad Cow disease, Prions, are just proteins, without genetic material. From here, you go up in complexity, through viruses, bacteria, algae, plants, protozoa, right up to animals such as humans. This represents a gradation from non-life (debatebly -prions) to life.
If you consider that, in the Miller-Urey experiments, amino acids were in fact produced, in a few weeks, (life molecules from non-life) imagine what could be produced over a few million years, with warm sulphurous mineral springs and occasional lightening strikes as a power source.

I does not require faith. Just reasoning and an ability to think without relying on the supernatural.
Conversely, if intelligent design is responsible, why has no-one witnessed this happening? The requirement of proof should be the same for all arguments.