Asking of the Designer what we would of any other designer (The atheist delusion)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 30, 2011, 15:10 (4647 days ago) @ dhw

or that given the information we have, there are likely to be far fewer instances of abiogenesis in the universe than some people have expected? You appeared to argue the latter ("abiogenesis is rare in the universe"), and my point is that you only need ONE instance of abiogenesis to give theism a nasty shock.-Granted. And we are here. But by which method, abio, Godly work, witchcraft? 
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> It's important that we all agree on what abiogenesis actually means. A Wikipedia article confirms my definition: "the study of how biological life arose from inorganic matter through natural processes." I have found an ID site that puts the argument against abiogenesis:
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> www.gotquestions.org/abiogenesis-definition-theory.html
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> This again confirms my definition, and I'm sure you will agree with every word, which is why I was surprised in the first place when you wrote abiogenesis was rare. All a big misunderstanding?-No. The authors have concluded, from the knowledge we find on Earth that abio is likely to be very rare. Your definition is fine: Simply go from inert inorganic to living material by natural processes. Study of organic chemistry has to be part of the considerations. My conclusion, from my knowledge of biochemistry, that by definition abio is practically impossible. We only have the abstract to read, but I must conclude that authors considered biochemistry in their apriori reasoning in entering probabilities into their Baysian equations.