> Abiogenesis, to be confirmed, MUST begin with non-life and conclude
with
> life with no intelligent input.
>
> Or am I missing something?
>
> Burgy
yes. The conditions which existed on earth at the time abiogenesis
would have been taking place no longer exist anywhere on this planet.
Therefore the conditions (as they are thought to have been) will have
to be reconstructed in the laboratory. To add the condition "with no
intelligent input" makes the project impossible. In any case the
Creationist contention is that life cannot be created other than by
God exactly as described in Genesis. Therefore it should be utterly
impossible with even "intelligent" non-divine input.
The leap from non-life to life is a one-step process only in the
Bible. Miller & Urey took some inorganic elements and saw organic
compounds spontaneously form under the right conditions. That's
supposed to be impossible. Creationists like to up the ante at that
point and say "it's not a horse or a mouse." Which, of course, is only
possibile with magical (god-like) powers and which would eliminate the
need for evolution.
Susan
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