Is There a Difference Between Trusting Scientists and Trusting Preachers?

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]However, you only talked about the difficulties on one side of the discussion.  What is the difference in origin of life, and resurrection of life?   Is it time or the quantity that is the issue? [...]

The issue is mainly complexity. Simpler lifeforms, like bacteria can be pretty resistant and many can enter the state of anabiosis, in which they can survive even incredibly harsh conditions, then resume their life functions even after a fairly long time. Some kinds can live in the proximity of underwater volcanoes, some can potentially survive space travel. But that's because they're many orders of magnitude less complex than a human body, which depends on a great number of very fragile, sophisticated and interconnected systems to stay alive and function.

As far as origin of life is concerned - if life was to start spontaneously, it would have to be much simpler than pretty much any organisms living on earth right now; perhaps something as "simple" as self-replicating chain of amino-acids, that would start the process of evolution, creating more complex forms that would replace them, over billions of years. But of course - we don't have archaeological evidence of such early life-forms, because they had no hard parts, that would fossilize. And we haven't yet been able to recreate abiogenesis, or observe it anywhere else in the Universe, so the jury is still out on this one.