"Richard Alexander" <pooua@aol.com> wrote in message
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I cannot speak for him, but in my case, I argue that there is no known
natural mechanism by which life would arise spontaneously. There are a
lot of theories, besides some nebulous claims of having created
"proto-cells" under "early Earth conditions," but nothing that
demonstrates actual abiogenesis, and the "proto-cells" turn out, under
closer examination, to be little more than soap bubbles.

OTOH...

I cannot speak for you, but in my case, I argue that there is no known
evidence by which life would arise by supernatural intervention. There are a
lot of theories, besides some nebulous claims of having created "from dust"
under "early Earth conditions," but nothing that demonstrates actual Divine
Creation, and the "historical records" turn out, under closer examination,
to be little more than tribal mythology.

Choose your faith carefully -- the one is no more absolutely certain than
the other.  Personally, I think it more likely that, if Deity was involved,
His/Her intervention probably occurred at the Big Bang level.  But that,
like all religion, is pure speculation.

BTW, you'll find no major faith on the planet that absolutely excludes the
possibility of extraterrestrial life in its fundamental tenets -- whether
such life arose through abiogenesis or elves leaving babies under cabbage
leaves.

But then, this is hardly the right venue to discuss how many angels can
dance on the head of a pin nor any other religious speculation.

0:)



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