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Abiogenesis ("Chemical Evolution"): Did Life come from Non-Life by Pure Chance.
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RE: Abiogenesis ("Chemical Evolution"): Did Life come from Non-Life by Pure Chance.
(July 26, 2023 at 2:30 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Alleged Spontaneous Abiogenesis is like the earlier theory of "Spontaneous Generation", now discredited. The odds against it are so extra-ordinary and far-fetched, it's perfectly rational to believe that this did not happen through Pure Chance but rather through Intelligent Design.

"‘Spontaneous generation’ was a mainstream scientific doctrine for a very long time, until proven wrong by Francesco Redi and Louis Pasteur. Even then it died a slow and painful death. Spontaneous generation basically proposed that given the right conditions and precursors, life would arise all by itself ‘spontaneously’. There were various recipes for this well-established ‘fact’ of science. For example, 17th Century Flemish chemist Jan Baptiste van Helmont wrote, ‘If a soiled shirt is placed in the opening of a vessel containing grains of wheat, the reaction of the leaven in the shirt with fumes from the wheat will, after approximately 21 days, transform the wheat into mice.’ It was also thought that meat left to rot would spontaneously give rise to maggots and flies. The self-evident fact that rotting meat would before long swarm with maggots and flies established the belief in spontaneous generation of maggots and flies from rotting meat. Redi proposed an eminently simple experiment to test the hypothesis: let’s cover the meat with some fine material and see what happens! Well of course no maggots or flies swarmed on the meat as it rotted because no flies could get to the meat to lay their eggs and thus produce the maggots and flies that were so well known. And so Redi overthrew long-established scientific doctrine and replaced it with a new doctrine, ‘Life comes from life’—what became known as the ‘law of biogenesis’."
From: https://creation.com/abiogenesis

Complex beings like maggots and flies do not spontaneously emerge from rotten meat, sure. But how is this evidence against abiogenesis as it is understood to mean? And how is this evidence for intelligent design? Abiogenesis isn't proposing that life arose spontaneously, after all.

Life isn't some magical force that requires a magical switch to be flipped for it to be set to "on". It's purely physical. You might be confusing life with soul or something.
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RE: Abiogenesis ( - by Peebothuhlu - July 26, 2023 at 6:55 am
RE: Abiogenesis ("Chemical Evolution"): Did Life come from Non-Life by Pure Chance. - by GrandizerII - July 26, 2023 at 10:22 am

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