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| Abiogenesis
Abiogenesis is not part of evolution. All theories have limitations and assume the existence of something. Relativity assumes the existence of matter/energy and spacetime. Cell theory assumes the existence of cells. Quantumchronodynamics assumes the existence of electrons.
Evolution assumes the existence of life. As Darwin put it:
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." C. Darwin, On the Origin of Species, pg 450.
Darwin was perfectly willing to have God zap the first life into existence. After that event, then evolution took over.
However, since then people have worked on the idea that life arose by chemistry from non-living chemicals: abiogenesis. Darwin speculated but this really got rolling when Biochemistry became a separate discipline within science. Life is chemistry. Therefore, could it not also begin by chemistry?
Read these 2 webpages and we can discuss the topic further:
http://www.theharbinger.org/articles/rel_sci/fox.html
http://www.siu.edu/~protocell/
If there is anything on those pages you don't understand, be sure to ask.
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"If sound science appears to contradict the Bible, we may be sure that it is our interpretation of the Bible that is at fault." Christian Observer, 1832, pg. 437
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