(October 25, 2014 at 8:37 pm)Heywood Wrote: Anyways all you have regarding abiogenesis is an unproven hypothesis. If you believe it happened, you believe in something which has not be shown to be true. Surgenator's claim that atheists don't believe things which are not shown to be true is clearly false. Why you want to defend a claim which is clearly wrong is perplexing.After reading more about abiogenesis, I did realize not all the steps have been shown. So you have me there. However, given a two possible scenerios, life arose from an intelligent being or through natural process (I realize this might be a false dictomy, but for the sake of argument I'll assume these are my only two optons), the intelligent being scenerio has two main flaws.
One, it doesn't answer how the intelligent being came to be. Even if the life begain on Earth by some alien race, you still need to explain how the alien race came to be. An always existent being has never been observed and goes against everything we know about our natural world that everything dies.
Two, the intelligent being isn't very intelligent. Our bodies are filled with stupid designs. If an intelligent being (be it alien race or god) started life on earth, it did it in a very haphazard way.
When I consider the abiogenesis scenerio, each step is based on well know physics and chemistry. So to imagine each step doesn't require any leap of faith. The hardest part to believe is the getting the environments for these processes to exist. However, abiogenesis has billions of years to get it right.
So out of the two hypothesis, abiogenesis makes the least amount of assumptions.
