Abiogenesis

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(10-23-2011 02:07 AM)kaleb Wrote:  

(10-22-2011 02:36 PM)EqualAtheist Wrote:  No argument here. Just curious what the evidence for Abiogenesis might be.(That makes 2 of us.) This, like creation, was not taught to me in school, and until a few years ago, I had never heard of it.

You probably remember it as spontaneous generation.

Here is my specific questions for this particular topic.

Millers 1953 experiment showed that "SOME" amino acids could be produced by discharging electricity into a preset mixture of gases, however the same can not be said of RNA.

RNA is required to make proteins, yet Proteins are involved in the production of RNA.
So, HOW could either one arise by chance, let alone both of them?

If the creation of complex molecules in a lab requires the skill of a trained intelligent scientist, how could the far more complex molecules in a cell arise undirected, and by chance?

Simple:

When you have these compounds in enormous numbers, bashing into each other and combining at random, sooner or later a combination will form that can self-replicate. There are a nearly-infinite number of possible self-replicating molecules, but only one has to form in order for life to arise.

We don't know the specifics of how abiogenesis occurred -- there are multiple competing hypotheses about the process.