The Sermon Part 2 (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 02, 2008, 16:43 (5955 days ago) @ dhw

David agrees with George's definition of abiogenesis ("first appearance of life in a lifeless universe").
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> If you take abiogenesis to mean simply the origin of life ... whether created or not ... then of course, as George says, it happened. We're here to prove it. The dispute is over whether living organisms can arise spontaneously from non-living substances (a theory crucial to atheism),> 
> Not only is the hypothesis unproven, but according to David, "the odds against spontaneous formation of living organisms wherever it happens are impossibly enormous" (July 23 at 02.44 under Knowledge, belief & agnosticism). - I still think George is correct strictly speaking. Abiogenesis may imply in some atheistic minds spontaneous living cells from non-living inorganic material, occurring by chance. But it also could have been caused by a creative source religions call God. that is what my first entry implied.