How did the chemicals for life come together??..

[solja247]

No, inheritance of molecular properties through molecular self replication has been a necessary part of abiogenesis long before the process culminated in a living cell. The survival of traits developed with each stage of abiogenesis was subject to selection and survival pressure. So abiogenesis was evolution. It may not have been biological evolution yet until the later stages of the process, but it was evolution.

Well, everyone throws the word 'evolution' around, I guess we can call abiogenesis 'evolution' as well.

So that destroys the "abiogenesis is too complex" argument, doesn't it? If each of the 5000 digit on a 5000 digit combination lock lights up when you get that digit right, it would not be very complex to get all 5000 digit right, would it? Only if the process is random, if you must randomly select all 5000 digits at once and are given no indication of how close you are unless you get all 5000 digits right, could there really exist an issue of whether it was too complex or unlikely to occur.

You are assuming that if you have an eternity anything is possible, but is it? I think we have to be careful when it comes to statistics.

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Also, it's rather silly of you to assert to me familiarity with something I had to tell you only 3 weeks ago:

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I dont know why I wrote that. I do know how evolution works. I am studying biology at the moment.

The fact that you fancy yourself to be well versed in philosophy, but mainly aspire towards those sections of art that make little houses of cards out of idle assertions, does not mean sciences, which does not care for untestable assertions, has not always been part of philosophy or is not the most vibrant and powerful part of philosophy now. The fact that some people in sections you like think science is not philsophy seem to stem from just how marginalized those card house assertions would seem if compared to the methodological progress that has been made in natural philsophy.

Does science ask questions like; 'Is there a God? what is truth? What is existence?' I didnt think so. Science and philosophy have the same roots but they are different, they do have some similiarities though.