Is there a scientific law or demonstrable process that can account for non-living objects coming to life?

The womb and the ground are full of life forms whether plant or animal cells.

Kumquat May's explanation is false because the synthetic DNA from his article had to be placed in a living cell. Have the scientists make a cell from the dust and then you will have an audience. This experiment was essentially plagerism. Face it, nobody can take nothing and make something no matter how many PHDs they have unless they cheat and use something living in the process.

If scientist cannot create life from scratch then give God the credit.

@Kumquat. That's not quite making life from non-living objects. The scientists needed a living host cell to put the genes in. Science still has no idea how to make life from scratch.

If you put God out of the equation there is, as of yet, no proven way to bring non-living material to life. Scientists have theories but the fact is they really don't know how the first life forms (which would have been single celled) came about. The fact is even the most "simple" life form requires many parts all working right in order for it to function. How anyone can believe that a cell composed of a cell membrane, cytoplasm, ribosomes, lissomes, a nucleus, mitochondria, and DNA that encodes the construct of the cell could have come into being by some random chance is beyond me. And then that after all that got assembled it somehow became alive. The odds of that happening are absurdly low, statistically impossible. It makes a lot more sense that an intelligent God created life.

Science has helped us discover a lot of things, but in some areas it comes up short.

Edit: I don't mean to say that birth and plants growing aren't a natural, scientifically explainable process, I just mean that the origins of life just can't be some accident. Obviously birth and such are not magic, they are biology. Biology created by God but processes that do not need God constantly manipulating them to happen. God made an amazing universe that normally runs on it's own.

Everything is alive, everything is in motion. You look at a rock and see it as solid, but inside the rock atoms and particles are in rapid motion, first here then there. It is the unmoved mover, it is moving, in motion yet it is not moved! And Life is intelligent, Life comes from Life. You said is it God? Depends on what your idea of God is, God is Life, we are Life, everything that is Is Life, Life is intelligent, we don't need to say some superior being out there somewhere is behind it because God is equally present everywhere, we created in God's image and likeness are co-creators of reality. Maybe it was our spirits that moved upon the waters, that created the life, competing with each other to make the prettiest flower, the most beautiful butterfly, the cleverest fish, then we entered our creations to see what it felt like and have long forgotten!

Complex life such as mice, maggots, flies etc cannot spring to life from non-living matter. This is Pasteur's law of Biogenesis. Should such a thing truly ever occur, it would be clear evidence of magic, or even God.

Self-replicating chemicals can spontaneously form from nonliving components, given the right initial conditions. This is the theory of Abiogenesis, which in no way contradicts Pasteur. Many elements of Abiogenesis have been demonstrated in labs, though we're still a ways away from a complete understanding of all paths and mechanisms.

Additions and alterations of these primitive chemicals which lead to more robust or better-replicating molecules can make these simple molecules more complex. Successive mutations and combinations, filtered through a few hundred million or so years of change, lead to things we would recognize as primitive life. This is Evolution.

A demonstrable process is still something under development, it may take a few more years.

Remember that this planet had several million years at its disposal, running experiments over a half billion square kilometer, and only had to produce ONE very primitive (much simpler than the simplest now existing bacteria, owing to there not being anything to compete with it) organism.

No magic, no god required. Just enough time, chemicals and energy.

No, it hasn't happened.

The thing about synthetic dna isn't really creating life, they had to use already living cells to make it work. Quote from the article posted by another person here: "The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell." That's not making life out of nothing, that is modifying life that is already there.

A baby coming out of the womb would be a demonstrable process. It's repeatable, it happens hundreds of times every day. I'm no biologist but I'm pretty sure they have a pretty firm grasp on whats going on in there.

Yes, it's called chemistry. Those of us who attended school were taught about it. A baby, however, comes from a living source as do seeds. That would be biology.

Yeah Hollywood has proven it so many times in those realistic movies they put out

They have been doing it in the lab for a few years now. No magic required.