Thanks Russ for your erudite response.
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What's amazing here is that the definition I provided of abiogenesis is essentially the same as the one you provided. The only difference is that the one you provided has a lot more scientific-sounding "fluff". Nevertheless, the fact remains that:
when you boil down the faith of abiogenesis, you are believing that rocks turn into humans given enough time.
If you are not able to discern the difference between

[color:"white"]...[/color] [color:"green"]{SOUP}[/color]

and

[color:"white"]...[/color] [color:"red"]{ROCK}[/color]

Then I would seriously caution people buying herbal cures from you to check their mineral content....

Seriously Russ, it's not rocket science, no matter what was taught in your school, or more accurately, what you learned, it has always been a question of chemicals coming together and mixing - something rocks are incapable of but which soups do nicely.

We have also found that amino acids - those molecules that all proteins and other elements of life are made from - occur in space and frequently are carried to earth. That means we are really starting with chicken soup (complete with noodles).

The other end of the abiogenesis question is when you get a replicating system, one subject to copy error and selection, and thus evolution for better, improved and more stable replication systems. These do not need to be cellular life.

And we know of several replicating molecules.

Now you can either update you knowledge of reality or you can update your denial of reality, but just remember that denial of evidence is not faith.

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de·lu·sion –noun
1.
[color:"white"]...[/color] a. The act or process of deluding.
[color:"white"]...[/color] b. The state of being deluded.
2. A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand.
3. Psychiatry A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.
(American Heritage Dictionary 2007)


It's all a matter of choice. Belief based on objective reality or refuge in fantasy.

Enjoy.

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