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Do facts actualy point to a Creator?

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That is the post I was referred to when I asked what evidence you had presented. Am I to assume that you have no evidence to present?
You seem incapable of or unwilling to accept an explanation that doesn't
conform to your preconceptions of what was written. In short, you prefer to argue against your strawman.
 
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Can you prove that what you are seeing is real? No, but you cannot deny the existence of consciousness: that is the only reality you can prove. Why would you try and base your theories upon something you cannot prove is real?
 
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Show us how you test it.

What experiment can demonstrate that no life in the history of the universe came from non-life?

Also, how many times has anyone observed a deity creating life?

Consciousness is what we really need to be considering as the quantitative substance of life, not matter. If consciousness lives outside of matter, then matter is not the beginning: consciousness is. I suggest that all one has to do is look at the fact that the universe is not eternal to understand that consciousness is the most likely beginning of the material universe.

Why look for the beginning of the universe outside of consciousness when consciousness is not only a viable option, but it is the only option that is provable as being factual?
 
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I know of no instance of consciousness "Living outside of matter". Do you have any evidence of this ever occurring?
 
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I know of no instance of consciousness "Living outside of matter". Do you have any evidence of this ever occurring?
You know no instance of life arising from abiogenesis. Neither do you have evidence of it ever occurring. Yet that doesn't interfere with your beliefs.
 
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Can you prove that what you are seeing is real? No, but you cannot deny the existence of consciousness: that is the only reality you can prove. Why would you try and base your theories upon something you cannot prove is real?

For the same reason you stop on red.

Seriously, I don't believe you're a solipsist, because being a solipsist and living to the age where you can understand what solipsism means are two mutually exclusive propositions. Congratulations, you've discovered the fact that we can't be 100% sure of our sensory data. What, you want a cookie? You've reinvented the biggest philosophical dead end ever, and ignored every attempt to advance past that. And now you're trying to use solipsism to demonstrate the existence of something other than yourself? Not only are you wasting your time, but you've completely missed the point, and you've absolutely refused to support your arguments. One more time:

So kindly establish, independent of reality:

A) Our conscious awareness is growing (I don't even know what this is supposed to mean if we cannot accept our sensory data as legitimate)
B) Growth indicates a beginning
C) Beginnings must have causes

Because I don't think you can.
 
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How is the fact that life comes only from previous life not testable?

The fact that life reproduces says exactly nothing about where original life came from, nore how it initially formed.

It can logically be argued that every single time that your abiogenesis fails the fact that life comes only from life it is being tested and being proven right

No, it can not.
Since abiogenesis doesn't investigate how existing life reproduces. It rather tries to find out how original life initially formed.


Actually, it needs no such testing since obviously that's the way life naturally arises.

No. That's the way that existing life reproduces.

The abiogenesis idea is simply the old Spontaneous Generation idea which was proven bogus in disguise.

No. Spontaneous Generation was discarded a long, long time ago.
It's funny how talking to creationists feels like as them not being aware of the last 200 years of scientific inquiry.
 
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You know no instance of life arising from abiogenesis.

That's why scientists are investigating it.

However, we do know that at one point there was no life and then there was.
So life did arise *somehow*, in *some way*.

Neither do you have evidence of it ever occurring.

False. As said, at one point there was no life and then there was. So it must have formed somehow, in some way.

The origins of life question is still a puzzle to be solved. Scientists are working to solve it. Abiogenesis is the field they work in. It's also the name of a collection of hypothesis, which shows some promise, but has nothing conclusive as of yet.

Yet that doesn't interfere with your beliefs.

What beliefs?
 
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You can never make that 100% assertion when using inductive reasoning. The sun has appeared every morning for thousands of years. The conclusion that it will appear tomorrow isn't 100% guaranteed. Only to probability increases with the number of times we observe a repetition of a pattern. It is highly probable that the sun will rise tomorrow. The probability of life having come from life at the outset is increased based the observation of that pattern which according to research has gone on for millions of years.

The problem with abiogenesis is that you have absolutely no pattern upon which to base your probability at all. That makes it extremely unlikely that it occurred that way. Add to that the inability to force nature to comply in lab-and the probability that such a thing happened becomes even more ridiculously remote.

No. Observing X happening is only evidence that X happens. It isn't evidence that Y does NOT happen.
The problem is the you folks haven't observed Y happening at all. We have observed X happening all the time-and choose to reject y in favor of X. So the ones being totally irrational are not those preferring Y it is those who prefer X.

That's technically not correct.
Fact 1: at one point, there was no life
Fact 2: then there was life

Conclusion: life originated in some way.

Obviously it had to originate in some way. that is a logical conclusion. However, that isn't the issue since I am not denying that life had to originate in some way. I am talking about the absurdity of assuming it arrived in a way abnormally contrary to how it arrives via nature.


The question is "how".
You merely declare it to be impossible that the answer to that question is a natural process, but you cannot back up that assertion.

Nope! I did not say that it's impossible for the answer to be a natural process because I don't consider abiogenesis a natural process. The natural process is life arising from previous life. That is a natural process because it has been observed in nature. Abiogenesis has never been observed in nature so how is that a natural process? You have it all backwards.


The mocking is about people making assertions without evidence.

Then they should mock themselves since they are the ones making assertions when they don't really have a leg to stand on.
 
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Absolutely no life? Really? Ummmm, how do you know? I mean, you don't even know anything at all about before the Big Bang and can only conjecture about branes, and multiple universes. So ummm, how can you be so sure that there was absolutely no life anywhere from which life was derived to be here? Obviously your puzzlement and your scientists' puzzlement is based on a mere irrational assumption which you and they prefer to entertain.
 
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You can never make that 100% assertion when using inductive reasoning.

Then why are you doing exactly that??


The sun has appeared every morning for thousands of years. The conclusion that it will appear tomorrow isn't 100% guaranteed.

That's a very bad analogy. We know exactly why the sun "appears" every day. We know that for it to not "appear", the earth would have to stop rotating.
We know from physics that this will not be happening.

We also know that IF the sun would not "appear" tomorrow, none of us will be here to witness it, because none of us would survive whatever event would make that happen.

The physics of the solar system are very well understood.


Only to probability increases with the number of times we observe a repetition of a pattern.

See, this is why this is a very bad analogy. It doesn't matter how many times we have witnessed the sunrise, because we understand the physics involved.

For example, we have NEVER witnessed Pluto complete a full orbit, because a single orbit of that planet takes longer then the time we actually know about this object.
But that doesn't stop us from knowing that a single orbit of Pluto takes 248 years.

We don't need to observe its complete orbit to know this.


The probability of life having come from life at the outset is increased based the observation of that pattern which according to research has gone on for millions of years.

Once again, observing X does not tell you anything about the probability of Y.

Observing life reproducing does not tell you anything about the origins of life.

The problem with abiogenesis is that you have absolutely no pattern upon which to base your probability at all. That makes it extremely unlikely that it occurred that way.

Argument from ignorance, again.
Not having access to any observable data doesn't make something impossible.

Black holes were described and predicted long before a single one was discovered.

Add to that the inability to force nature to comply in lab-and the probability that such a thing happened becomes even more ridiculously remote.

Argument from ignorance, once again.
When you don't know how something happened (yet), it's not that surprising that there were no successfull reproductions of the phenomena.

The problem is the you folks haven't observed Y happening at all.

But we know that it DID happen.
Because at one point there was no life and then there was.

We have observed X happening all the time-and choose to reject y in favor of X.

X and Y are two different phenomena.
Observing X doesn't tell you anything about Y.

Argument from ignorance.... AGAIN.

Obviously it had to originate in some way. that is a logical conclusion.

Great, so what are you arguing about, really?

Scientists working in the field of abiogenesis are investigating the "how" of this event. What is the problem? Obviously you agree that the event happened. You agree that it originated in some way.

This means that you agree that life doesn't only come from life. Since you agree that original life did not come from pre-existing life.

So again, what are you arguing about???


However, that isn't the issue since I am not denying that life had to originate in some way.

It seems like you are, though.......

I am talking about the absurdity of assuming it arrived in a way abnormally contrary to how it arrives via nature.

You're contradicting yourself.
If original life didn't come from pre-existing life...... then it didn't come from pre-existing life. Why do you oppose investigating this event so much? Are you afraid of what they will find??

Nope! I did not say that it's impossible for the answer to be a natural process because I don't consider abiogenesis a natural process.

Playing word games is not going to help you.
I'm not the one going into this question with a priori beliefs. You clearly are.
You are excluding the possibility of a natural process for no apparant reason (other then your a priori faith based beliefs, off course).

The natural process is life arising from previous life.

And we're back to square one........................................

Once again: that's an argument from ignorance.
Existing life reproduces -that's what it does- and that doesn't tell us anything on how original life came to be.


That is a natural process because it has been observed in nature. Abiogenesis has never been observed in nature so how is that a natural process? You have it all backwards.

You're the one who has it backwards.
Original life didn't come from pre-existing life. It originated in some way.
Abiogenesis investigates how that happened.

Black holes weren't observed before they were described either.
The orbit of pluto has never been observed, but it's known to be 248 years.

Yes, the investigation is looking for a natural process on how it could have occured. But you're asserting that it could not have been a natural process, up front. You cannot support that assertion. You're just making it because of your a priori faith based beliefs.

Then they should mock themselves since they are the ones making assertions when they don't really have a leg to stand on.

The only one making assertions here, is you.
If abiogenesis was just an assertion, there would be no investigation or research ongoing.
 
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Absolutely no life? Really? Ummmm, how do you know?

Evidence.
Life leaves traces.
Furthermore, this planet hasn't got an infinite past.
Neither does the solar system.
Neither does the universe.

And you already agreed in your previous post that life originated in "some way".


I mean, you don't even know anything at all about before the Big Bang

"before" time, ha?


and can only conjecture about branes, and multiple universes. So ummm, how can you be so sure that there was absolutely no life anywhere from which life was derived to be here?

Evidence. Life as we know it on this planet requires certain criteria to be able to exist.
Even ignoring all those criteria, the matter it is made from has to exist as well. Hydrogen, carbon, etc.

See, now you are even retreating into not only ignoring biology, but also chemistry and physics.
The lengths you need to go through in order to make your faith based beliefs seem likely or probable or sensible, ha....

Obviously your puzzlement and your scientists' puzzlement is based on a mere irrational assumption which you and they prefer to entertain.

It's not irrational to ask the question and then look for the answer.
What is irrational is to pretend to have the answer before asking the question - which is what you are doing.
 
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You can never make that 100% assertion when using inductive reasoning.

So what? Why must one always have 100% certainty?

Inductive reasoning is a powerful and indispensable tool for learning about the universe. The point isn't to create rationalistic infallible truths, but to expand one's context of knowledge. If one's scientific model is demonstrably superior to competing models, and that in one's context of knowledge denying the model would be absurd, or close to it, one has made an epistemic victory.

AFAIK, there is no good alternative to inductive reasoning when it comes to understanding the universe. Do you have one?


It seems to me that one approaches the issue from inductive plausibility, not calculated probability.

The problem is the you folks haven't observed Y happening at all.

Yes, but that is no barrier to inductive reasoning.

I am talking about the absurdity of assuming it arrived in a way abnormally contrary to how it arrives via nature.

That's not absurd though, and it's not an assumption. It's a plausible conclusion based on what we do know about chemistry and the conditions on early Earth, for instance. What would be absurd is to conclude that if we don't see abiogenesis taking place in modern Earth, then it can't have happened in early Earth. The conditions are different, and so the conclusion does not follow.

Nope! I did not say that it's impossible for the answer to be a natural process because I don't consider abiogenesis a natural process.

Abiogenesis is a natural process. It is something that happens in the natural universe. Natural processes are not limited to "life arising from previous life" just because that's how you personally use the term.

Abiogenesis has never been observed in nature so how is that a natural process?

It is an unobserved natural process. "Natural" does not imply "observed".


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Evidence.
Life leaves traces.
Furthermore, this planet hasn't got an infinite past.
Neither does the solar system.
Neither does the universe.

And you already agreed in your previous post that life originated in "some way".

1. The planet need not have an infinite past for a life source to initiate life on it.

2. Neither does the solar system

3. Neither does the universe

Your premise is flawed.





"before" time, ha?
Your physicists speculate about time before the Big Bang existing in other universes.
Claim that our Big Bag might have been merely one in an infinite number of Big bangs all resulting from the collisions of what they call branes. Why you seem completely oblivious to this is beyond me.


Evidence. Life as we know it on this planet requires certain criteria to be able to exist.
Even ignoring all those criteria, the matter it is made from has to exist as well. Hydrogen, carbon, etc.

I never denied that these things aren't essential to life. So that is strawman.

See, now you are even retreating into not only ignoring biology, but also chemistry and physics.
The lengths you need to go through in order to make your faith based beliefs seem likely or probable or sensible, ha....

I'm not ignoring anything. You are.


BTW
The blind faith accusation applies more to you that it does to me.


It's not irrational to ask the question and then look for the answer.
What is irrational is to pretend to have the answer before asking the question - which is what you are doing.

Only if we ask despite the obvious answer being right under our noses. As for asking, every human asks hat question and reaches a conclusion.
 
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1. The planet need not have an infinite past for a life source to initiate life on it.

2. Neither does the solar system

3. Neither does the universe

Your premise is flawed.

Your reasoning is absurd.
Are you now claiming that life exists outside of the universe?
It sure sounds like it.

In any case, you seem to be asserting an infinite string of life creating life.

Your physicists speculate about time before the Big Bang existing in other universes.

"my" physicsists?

And do you know what the word "speculate" means?

Claim that our Big Bag might have been merely one in an infinite number of Big bangs all resulting from the collisions of what they call branes. Why you seem completely oblivious to this is beyond me.

I'm not oblivious to it. Rather, you seem to not understand the difference between "claims" and "speculation". You also rather happy to pick and choose the "speculations" that you can use in your argument, while ignoring all the others.

I never denied that these things aren't essential to life. So that is strawman.

Then you contradict yourself.
If they are essential to life, then you imply that the must exist before life can exist. And in that case, you imply a time when life didn't exist, as those criteria weren't met at that time.

BTW
The blind faith accusation applies more to you that it does to me.

No. I'm not the one who is asserting things to be "impossible". I'm not the one who is pretending to have the answers before asking the questions.
That would be you.

Only if we ask despite the obvious answer being right under our noses.

The origins of life are unkown. There's no "obvious answer" here.

As for asking, every human asks hat question and reaches a conclusion.

Scientists investigating the origins of life haven't reached a conclusion, as evidenced by the ongoing research.
 
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I personally find it adequate and all your objections totally irrelevant.


Totally irrelevant! We are talking about human expectations based on observation of patterns. There is no need to know physics and mathematics uinvolved to develop such an expectation.

The Pluto example is also a false analogy. Pluto is detectable. Abiogenesis is not.


Once again, observing X does not tell you anything about the probability of Y.

Observing life reproducing does not tell you anything about the origins of life.

So if life were reproducing via abiogenesis that would tell me nothing about the origins of life? LOL!
Is that why they are struggling to make it happen-because it will tell them nothing about X or of life coming only from life?
That's ridiculous!


Argument from ignorance, again.
Not having access to any observable data doesn't make something impossible.

Black holes were described and predicted long before a single one was discovered.

You sound as if not having any observable data means that something is likely to exist.
that goes completely contrary to the scientific method which requires observation.

False analogy: Black holes indicated their presence via gravitational effects.
In contrast abiogenesis doesn't leave any observable effect indisputably tagged as abiogenesis.

Argument from ignorance, once again.
When you don't know how something happened (yet), it's not that surprising that there were no successful reproductions of the phenomena.

My inductive leap is justified. What isn't justified is calling something an event when you have absolutely no evidence to call it an event. Now THAT is BLIND FAITH.

But we know that it DID happen.
Because at one point there was no life and then there was.

Claiming omniscience doesn't help your case.


X and Y are two different phenomena.
Observing X doesn't tell you anything about Y.

I never claimed that observing X necessarily reveals anything about Y.
Both stand or fall on their own merits.

Argument from ignorance.... AGAIN.

That's your misunderstanding of what I say.


I never said that life doesn't come from life.

There is no event of abiogenesis to argue about except in your imagination. That's what the argument is about.





The only reason you IMAGINE that I am afraid is because you IMAGINE that I am approaching this subject from a religious point of view. Actually, I have reason to suspect that YOU are the one who is actually terrified to contemplate what life coming only from life might reveal because you can't seem to fathom that original life as anything other than God or a god. You see, I'm not limited in that peculiar way.



Playing word games is not going to help you.
I'm not the one going into this question with a priori beliefs. You clearly are.
You are excluding the possibility of a natural process for no apparant reason (other then your a priori faith based beliefs, off course).



And we're back to square one........................................

Once again: that's an argument from ignorance.
Existing life reproduces -that's what it does- and that doesn't tell us anything on how original life came to be.[/quote]

Let's switch this around via a hypothetical.

Suppose life were presently clearly arising only via abiogenesis you would take that as evidence that life arises only via abiogenesis. In that case you would consider those who suggested it arose from previous life, a process nver observed once, and never forced to happen in a la, you would tag the research as ubnnecessary and ridiculous.


You're the one who has it backwards.
Original life didn't come from pre-existing life. It originated in some way.
Abiogenesis investigates how that happened.

That demands omniscience

Black holes weren't observed before they were described either.
The orbit of pluto has never been observed, but it's known to be 248 years.


I support it with a pattern in nature.
You support yours with baseless claims and wishful thinking.

BTW
Your problem is that you want to bring religion and deities, goddesses, gods into this when religion and deitihave nothing to do with it.

The only one making assertions here, is you.
If abiogenesis was just an assertion, there would be no investigation or research ongoing.

Baseless assertions can be propped up to seaworthy of investigation and further propped up artificially via biased interpretation of facts.
 
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Your reasoning is absurd.
Are you now claiming that life exists outside of the universe?
It sure sounds like it.

In any case, you seem to be asserting an infinite string of life creating life.

I am merely refraining from dogmatically claiming omniscience by limiting life to this universe

"my" physicsists?

And do you know what the word "speculate" means?

Obviously you are the ones who don't since I clearly expressed my view as a speculation based on speculations, and you have taken it as if I were claiming 100% fact.




Not at all. Elements were used in order to form organisms. No contradiction there at all.

Speculation? Claims?
Wrong! I clearly expressed my first post as a speculation based on speculations. You folks understood it otherwise and began demanding that I back up my so-called claims with facts. I again explained that it was a speculation. Again you folks insist that it wasn't and that I should cough up facts. Do YOU know the difference between the twain?


No. I'm not the one who is asserting things to be "impossible". I'm not the one who is pretending to have the answers before asking the questions. That would be you. The origins of life are unknown. There's no "obvious answer" here.

I have good reason to feel that such a thing is impossible. It has never been observed to happen in nature. It can't be forced to happen in a lab. Furthermore the are just too many extremely improbable happy accidents necessary
for it to be a feasible idea. The only reason it is treated as feasible is because of a dread of the alternative.



Scientists investigating the origins of life haven't reached a conclusion, as evidenced by the ongoing research.

Wrong! Atheist scientists and their admirers proceed with the a priori belief that there is no life that could have produced the first life because to them that would be a recognition of the possibility to a being which the thing that they need to call God. There is your a priori.
 
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I personally find it adequate and all your objections totally irrelevant.

Ow, okay.... So you "believe it" and that's enough for you.
It doesn't matter to you at all that you might be wrong. You are just content with having your beliefs and holding on to them, no matter what anyone else says?

Totally irrelevant!

Seeing as your claim was that we MUST observe things before we can know them, it seems to me to be very relevant to show that such a claim is simply not correct.


We are talking about human expectations based on observation of patterns.

No, YOU are. I'm showing you that observation of a thing isn't always necessary to know that the thing happens.


There is no need to know physics and mathematics uinvolved to develop such an expectation. The Pluto example is also a false analogy. Pluto is detectable. Abiogenesis is not.

The orbit of Pluto is unobserved. But we know exactly how long it takes.
Black holes were unobserved and undetected, but we knew they existed, given our knowledge about relativity etc.

Life is observable and we know that it wasn't always present.
Therefor..... (fill in the blanks).

So if life were reproducing via abiogenesis that would tell me nothing about the origins of life? LOL!
Is that why they are struggling to make it happen-because it will tell them nothing about X or of life coming only from life?
That's ridiculous!

Now, you've stopped making sense altogether.
Existing life producing life does not tell you how original life came into being.

How can you not comprehend that?

You sound as if not having any observable data means that something is likely to exist.
No, that's not at all what I said.

I said that not observing something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist or can't happen.


False analogy: Black holes indicated their presence via gravitational effects.

Black holes where predicted long before any such gravitational effects were observed.


In contrast abiogenesis doesn't leave any observable effect

The effect of the origins of life are existing living things.....
They came from somewhere. They came into being in some way.
Unless you wish to assert an infinite string of life creating life without an original life form that didn't come from another living thing.

My inductive leap is justified. What isn't justified is calling something an event when you have absolutely no evidence to call it an event. Now THAT is BLIND FAITH.

Life doesn't exist.
Then life exists.

Somewhere between those two states, life came into being from non-life in some way.

I never claimed that observing X necessarily reveals anything about Y.

You've been doing nothing but that for the last couple of posts.
You've consistently pointed to existing life producing other life to claim that life can't come from non-life.

Life reproducing and life coming into being are two different things.

There is no event of abiogenesis to argue about except in your imagination. That's what the argument is about.

So, life never originated? It always existed?

Do you understand the difference between biogenesis and abiogenesis?

The only reason you IMAGINE that I am afraid is because you IMAGINE that I am approaching this subject from a religious point of view.

Aren't you?
Let's test that...

In your opinion / belief... how did life originate?
Did it originate?

Actually, I have reason to suspect that YOU are the one who is actually terrified to contemplate what life coming only from life

How have you concluded that life ONLY comes from other life?

Reminder: if you are going to answer that by saying that you only have examples of life coming from life, then you are making an argument from ignorance.

might reveal because you can't seem to fathom that original life as anything other than God or a god.

I'm not the one who is arbitrarily excluding ways by which life came into existence.
I'm open to the possibility it was a god. I'm also open to the possibility that it were extra-dimensional aliens or a natural process.

But I'm not willing to form a conclusion before asking and investigating the question. I'm also not willing to tie myself to a particular conclusion without evidence.

As it stands, I consider a natural process to be a lot more likely then the almost infinite amount of other possibilities, quite simply because a natural process doesn't require me to assume the existence of additional, unsupported, entities.

Furthermore, not a single thing that was once claimed to be caused by gods turned out to actually be caused by gods. From lightning to the tides to the origins of species, planets, stars, etc.

So I consider it a lot more likely that when the answer is finally found, the answer will be some type of natural process, sure.

You seem to exclude that possibility up front. And you can't seem to give a proper reason why, except an argument from ignorance.

You see, I'm not limited in that peculiar way.

The opposite seems true.


Suppose life were presently clearly arising only via abiogenesis you would take that as evidence that life arises only via abiogenesis.

No. That would be making the same fallacious mistake in the opposite direction.
Again, appealing to the set of examples of X, does not exclude Y. It's an argument of ignorance to do so.


In that case you would consider those who suggested it arose from previous life, a process nver observed once, and never forced to happen in a la, you would tag the research as ubnnecessary and ridiculous.

In this case, nobody would ask that question, because if all known life comes about via abiogenesis, then every new living thing forms a "fresh start".
The reason why we ask the question about the origin of life, is because we can't have an infinite string life living things producing other living things into the past.
This string of life producing life had a beginning. The question is about that beginning.

If we would only have examples of abiogenesis, there would be no such string. Every new living thing would have its own beginning and there would be no question of origins. As every life form would have its own origins. Furthermore, we wouldn't even be here to ask the question, as evolution requires heredity of traits through imperfect replication. Which you don't have if things don't replicate but have "fresh starts" all the time.

So that was a rather silly "hypothetical".

That demands omniscience

No.
It requires a couple of working braincells.

I support it with a pattern in nature.

The question of abiogenesis is about asking where that pattern came from.

BTW
Your problem is that you want to bring religion and deities, goddesses, gods into this when religion and deitihave nothing to do with it.

Que?
Read the thread title.
 
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I am merely refraining from dogmatically claiming omniscience by limiting life to this universe

So here's a direct question: did life originate at some point or did it always exist?

Obviously you are the ones who don't since I clearly expressed my view as a speculation based on speculations, and you have taken it as if I were claiming 100% fact.

So, you agree that the origins of life might have been a natural thing?

Not at all. Elements were used in order to form organisms. No contradiction there at all.

Carbon didn't always exist in the universe.
Carbon is formed inside the core of giant stars.
So stars existed before carbon.
Which means stars existed before carbon based life.

And there you have it: there was a point in this universe where carbon based life literally could not exist, as there was no carbon.

But there is carbon based life today.

So somewhere between those 2 moments, carbon based life arose.

Agree?


It's great that you aren't making truth claims about things that are unkown.
However, you do seem to be going to great lengths in order to argue against the scientific field of abiogenesis. You did call it "impossible" in previous posts, didn't you?

You did claim on multiple occasions that life "ONLY" comes from other life, didn't you?

I have good reason to feel that such a thing is impossible. It has never been observed to happen in nature.

Which doesn't mean that it didn't happen in the past.
As previously noted; it MUST have happened in the past, as at one point there was no life and then there was.

Life started at some point, right?
And this life, as it was FIRST life, couldn't have come from other life, right? What with being "first" and all.....

It can't be forced to happen in a lab.

....yet.

There was a time where atoms couldn't be split open in a lab either.
There was a time where nukes didn't explode.

Arguing from ignorance again...
It seems as if you are arguing that "because we don't know/understand it yet, it must be impossible/wrong".

Furthermore the are just too many extremely improbable happy accidents necessary
for it to be a feasible idea.

How would you know?
Also, improbable things happen all the time.
Deal yourself a bridge hand. Then calculate the probability of getting that exact hand.

The only reason it is treated as feasible is because of a dread of the alternative.

Which would be....what exactly?

Obviously, however life came to be, it actually did happen - since life exists.


If there is "life" that produced "life", then how could that second "life" be the "first life"?

You should think about the words you use before writing a post, because you made exactly zero sense there.
 
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