(January 19, 2015 at 8:56 pm)snowtracks Wrote: all these life experiments involve an outside mindful agency.
You mean outside like, in the same room but not in the experimental chamber?
How far away does the experimenter have to be to satisfy your demand that he not be involved?
Setting up some situation that plausibly might have been found on the early earth doesn't invalidate the demonstration that abiogenesis could have happened that way.
It isn't overcoming a 10^-50 barrier. It is just setting up the experiment so that you can have results in less than a lifetime instead of a billion years.
I do differ with the article's calling DNA life's software. Firmware maybe.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?