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Funniest argument evo's have. "Life came from outer space". They don't even seem to ask themselves where THAT came from.

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Since a whole, functioning cell could not possibly emerge spontaneously from non-living matter, many evolutionists believe that simpler viruses were the first step towards the development of life.

Strawman.

Most biologists believe that life originated in replicating molecules resulting from organic molecules already existing on earth and in space.

Viruses are much too complicated. Prions probably are too.

Not only was the question of the origin of life ‘vexing’ to Darwinists it was very much on their minds.
Like the question of the origin of the universe is part of astronomy so too origin of life questions are a part of Darwinism.

In fact, Thomas Huxley's famous essay on life's origins show just how important a part of evolutionary theory the question is.

Said Huxley (in part:

“And looking back through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and therefore I am devoid of any means of forming a definite conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To say, therefore, in the admitted absence of evidence, that I have any belief as to the mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with the power of determining the formation of new protoplasm from such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation to which analogical reasoning leads me; but I beg you once more to recollect that I have no right to call my opinion anything but an act of philosophical faith.”
(Biogenesis and Abiogenesis 1870 Essay)

Huxley was well thought of by Darwin for his zeal in propagating the “Gospel” of evolution so when Huxley speaks of the ‘evolution of life from non-living matter’ he speaks
like a high priest in The Temple of Darwinism.

Now as then, life from inert matter is an “act of philosophical faith”.