Evidence God Exists: Part II

[WingedFoe]

Believers don't view God as supernatural. God is nature.

...If God is nature, then there is no difference between God creating life, and abiogenesis (which is nature creating life). What is the problem you have with abiogenesis then?

You know what, Adrian? You've convinced me of something. You're right. If as a theistic evolutionist I can embrace evolution as God's tool, then I can also embrace abiogenesis as God's tool for originating life. I should not be disputing abiogenesis. If abiogenesis happened only once, as scientists have come to believe after centuries of failed experiments, then it was God's tool for creation. What I should really be arguing is that since abiogenesis cannot be replicated, this demonstrates that it happened only once because God allowed it to happen in order to create life.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Science is a process, not some book with all the answers laid out from the get-go. Wannabe aviators made failed attempts to fly for centuries before they finally did it in 1903. Doctors failed miserably to cure their patients, often spreading more disease and causing more harm than good until the acceptance of Germ Theory. Man stared into the cosmos and wondered for millennia what occupied the heavens, but it wasn't until the invention of the telescope (and many subsequent improvements on the technology) that we knew.

Molecular biology has made some amazing progress in the last century. The discovery of DNA, the advent of genetic engineering, and an extremely detailed understanding of cellular processes has been achieved. We know so much more about the cell than we did just 50 years ago, that it's laughable to discount current attempts to create artificial life by pointing at early failures. It's comparable to looking at all the wackos in history who strapped wooden wings to their arms in an attempt to fly, and saying "manned flight is impossible, just look at the thousands of failed attempts so far. These Wright Brothers should just give up, 'cause it's not gonna happen."