[FreedomProtector]

"Moreover, abiogenesis is not a part of the theory of evolution, and thus odds for or against it are not relevant to a discussion of evolution."

Spontaneous Generation/abiogenesis is central/vitally important to the belief of evolution. If one starts with the presupposition, Carl Sagan's unverifiable assertion, that "matter is all there is." or "The Cosmos is all there is, all there has been and all there ever will be.", one has to believe that life came from matter because "that is all that there is".

Life in all of its beauty, complexity and order had to come from somewhere, either it came from matter because "that is all there is", or it come from something external to matter because it is mathematically vastly improbable to arrive from just matter.

Oh, but wait, that doesn't fit our original presupposition that "that matter is all there is", so we must must try to explain the mathematically vastly improbable so we must believe and explain via "prebiotic soup", "primordial oooze"....

Are you willing to put your faith in something vastly mathematically improbable, because you don't want to change your original presupposition that "matter is all there is". Perhaps it may be time for you to consider the possibility that there may be something external to matter....an intelligent Designer...i.e.God

[Dimensio]

Spontaneous Generation/abiogenesis is central/vitally important to the belief of evolution. If one starts with the presupposition, Carl Sagan's unverifiable assertion, that "matter is all there is." or "The Cosmos is all there is, all there has been and all there ever will be.", one has to believe that life came from matter because "that is all that there is".

Carl Sagan's statement is not a part of the theory of evolution, and need not be true for the theory of evolution to be true.

Perhaps it may be time for you to consider the possibility that there may be something external to matter....an intelligent Designer...i.e.God

What evidence have you for such an entity?