Evolution part 10: Abiogenesis.

Abiogenesis is the studie of how living organisms can forme from non-living materiel. As I said in part 1 abiogenesis is not evolution and the validity of abiogenesis has no baring on the validity of theory of evolution. It does not matter where life came from oe how it fomed evolution still apples. Life could have been made by some god, magical pixies from another universe, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, ihe Invisible Pink Unicorn, accordantly sensed out of a time traveler from the year 3000 visiting the early Earth, it could have been brought here from some where else via a meteorite or or comet (panspermia) or it could have here formed naturally.

People use to believe that life spontaneously formed from things no longer living and that are rotting, for insistence it was believed that flies spontaneously formed on rotting meet. But we know today that spontaneous generation is imposable.

Contrary to what creationists say the first life to form would not be the modern cell. The modern cell is a very complex thing that has gone through billions of years of evolution. The first life where very simple and life could have started out as simple self replicating molecules.

The modern science of abiogenesis is in its infancy, there is still much we don't know. We do not yet have a theory of abiogenesis, there multiple hypothesise but nothing near as strong as evolution. But you must consider the fact that the processes that lead to the first life had the whole of the suffice of the earth and millions tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years.

Links, sources and further reading
Evolution Part 1: What evolution is and is not
Wikipedia - Abiogenesis
Wikipedia -Panspermia
Talk Origins - Abiogenesis FAQs
Talk Origins - Creatonist Claims list - ABiogenesis

Evolution main page
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0 Responses to “Evolution part 10: Abiogenesis.”

  1. avatar syinly says:

    Interesting, I had always believed in the big bang theory even though I am a christian.

  2. avatar angryxtian says:

    its crazy to think life just started out of nothing. Or a coincedence. Only God could make something as prfect as a eye.

    • avatar Lone Wolf says:

      That is a straw man argument. Life didn’t start from nothing nor was it coincidence. It was chemical reactions that produced the material the produced the first primitive life, life so primitive that it would be debatable whether its life or just a self reproducing system.
      As for the eye; not only did it evolve, we know how it did

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