Yes, it's called biogenesis.
I've looked into how this term is used on this forum, and it seems to vary from the dictionary version. e.g. here's the definition from the online English dictionary.
bi·o·gen·e·sis (b-jn-ss) also bi·og·e·ny (b-j-n)
n.
1. The principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter.
2. Generation of living organisms from other living organisms.
3. See biosynthesis.
4. The supposed recurrence of the evolutionary stages of a species during the embryonic development and differentiation of a member of that species. Also called recapitulation.
This is why I'm using "abiogensis" even when the first life is created by God, because something non-living is being created, in many creation stories from non-living matter.
But even in the "Christian Forum" definition, "biogenesis" is not a precise enough definition for what I am saying. Because "biogenesis" could be at any stage of the evolutionary process, including creating the current world with the current "kinds" as-is. I'm suggesting one particular type of "biogenesis" where the only life created was the first life/cell, and evolution then proceeded through solely natural, non-guided, processes after that.
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Yes, it's called Deism.
Deism is the "clockwork universe", i.e. that God set the universe in motion, and then it continued on auto-pilot. This is different from what I was talking about as I was talking about one particular variety of that where the first life e.g. the first cell, was created by God, which implies direct intervention by God well after the start of the universe.
The point of this thread is to ask if there's anyone who believes in this particular flavour of creation. So, the thread would end with, or without as the case may be, people saying if they believe in this particular creation. However, nobody has.
I'm surprised for two reasons. First, over on the "Christians only" forum, I noted several people whose belief in creation matched this pattern. Also, to me, this seems like an obvious choice for people who already believe that God exists.
There is quite a bit of uncertainty of how life got started. Hence unlike subsequent evolution there is still space for a wide variety of theories to fit or not fit the few known facts. There is a problem in that the first cells appeared very soon (geological) after the earth cooled. That needs an explanation, and we don't have any.
For an atheist the explanation "God did it" doesn't pass the Occam's razor test because requiring God as part of the explanation is more complicated than just having the first cell spontaneously appear.
But, if someone already believes in an all-powerful God, then having that God create the first cell would pass Occam's razor, and helps explain how cells arose so quickly.
Hence I'm surprised that this isn't a more popular belief.
Or perhaps this just shows how different the populations of the two (Christians-only versus free-for-all) evolution forums are.
