[FreedomProtector]

a) Natural processes occurring entirely upon earth resulted in chains of self-replicating molecular strands that eventually became the first life forms.

This sounds exactly like Carl Sagan or Issac Asimov describing the myth of spontaneous generation.

b) Aliens from another planet and/or dimension travelled to this planet and -- deliberately or accidentally -- seeded the planet with the first life forms.

This sounds like Fred Hoyle. Where did the aliens come from? Did the aliens spontaneously generate?


c) In the future, humans will develop a means to travel back in time. They will use this technology to plant the first life forms in Earth's past, making the existence of life a causality loop.

What started the causality loop? Did the starter of the loop spontaneously generate?

d) A divine agent of unspecified nature zap-poofed the first life forms into existence.

Isn't a divine agent the same as an intelligent designer?

e) Any method other than the four described above led to the existence of the first life forms.

??? is this a fifth or just BS

[Dimensio]

This sounds exactly like Carl Sagan or Issac Asimov describing the myth of spontaneous generation.

Please demonstrate that this is a myth.

This sounds like Fred Hoyle. Where did the aliens come from? Did the aliens spontaneously generate?

Explain how the origin of the hypothetical aliens is relevant to the process of evolution.

What started the causality loop? Did the starter of the loop spontaneously generate?

A causality loop has no "start". It is not "created", it is a self-sustaining event.

Isn't a divine agent the same as an intelligent designer?

No. An intelligent designer is an entinty -- not necessarily divine -- that intervenes in the process of evolution to "design" physical features that are allegedly not possible to emerge through mutation. I suggested no such action by the hypothetical divine agent.

??? is this a fifth or just BS

It is a catch-all for any hypothetical explanations that I have not included.

Why did you not explain why evolution cannot occur if any of the hypothetical events other than the first listed are true?