Faith in abiogenesis?

I agree. If anyone is going to state, categorically, that abiogenesis is fact, then they are not rationally justified, at least not at this stage.

However, it is the best theory we have at this stage. If you have a better one then, by all means, present it. This is how science works and it works well.

There is no viable theory of abiogenesis at the moment, but that doesn't mean there won't be in the future.

Even for theistic scientists, direct divine intervention is a hypothesis of last resort. And the reason that it is a hypothesis of last resort is that starting out with that hypothesis automatically terminates the search for any other explanation.

John Sutherland created RNA out of amino acids by simply hydrating then dehydrating them. Amino acids and organic material are quite common in the universe, so he's wrong.

If its that simple to create RNA, and one the abiogenesis theories is the RNA world, its the first step. With Evolution all you need is the first step.

Even if that were truth, where did the materials come from for the processes to even take place...

(Isaiah 45:18) 18 For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.

He has studied the application of information theory to problems in biology and published his conclusions in the Journal of Theoretical Biology from 1974 onwards. He is very critical of the primordial soup theory of the origin of life, and ***believes*** that "the origin of life is unsolvable as a scientific problem".

Not really; it is a recognition that evolution from the simple to the complex is the only origin story that makes any sense. Complex coming from the even-more-complex doesn't answer the question.

Life isn't magic, it's chemistry.

In modern times, it's easy to distinguish living from non-living. Life is so complex.

At the beginning of life, when nothing was anything more than a self-replicated molecule, it becomes harder to determine what is and isn't life.

I'm sure he's changed his mind now that so much research has been done showing that abiogenesis is not only possible but highly likely.

EDIT:

Life's first spark re-created in lab:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ribonucl...

Multicellular life evolves from single cells in lab:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/evolutio...

atheism has nothing to do with evolution and PRE-dates the thought of evolution by thousands of years.. atheists PRE-date Christians.

You want to argue science head right on over to science and see what they do to you lolololol

This shows the clear atheist double standard of faith! They have faith in the world an science but no faith in god!