something about on the sixth day comes to mind, but i can't quite put my finger on it...I think Fred Hoyle said it best. And I paraphrase. You would have a better chance that a tornado would cruise through a junkyard and create a fully functioning 747 than you would have of a living cell appear spontaneously.
These “scientists” are the sort that would walk the surface of a planet, see an empty soda can laying on the ground and call it a natural formation.
They have eyes but cannot see.
something about on the sixth day comes to mind, but i can't quite put my finger on it...Life had to not only come into being, it had to come into being with continual ability to reproduce itself. Any one who thinks that this could happen by chance is deluding themselves.
"no known pathways to create the components that make up a living cell from nonliving matter"
"atheists presume life just forms naturally"
"experts in the field have no idea how "
"the abiogenesis hypothesis is treated as scientific fact.
It isn’t. "
"What then is the likely cause of life?
We don’t have a clue."
"...need to develop a new abiogenesis theory..."
"The only real answer an honest atheist of today can give to how life arose from nonliving materials is, 'I don’t know' "
I've highlighted the important words above: "axiomatic", "no known", "presume", "no idea", "hypothesis", "likely", "theory", "don't know".
But the key word this article misses is "assume" or "assumption", because that is what underlies the entire modern natural-science enterprise, assumptions including:
Of course, we are free to mock those assumptions, but a point to remember is: outside them, there is no science.
IOW, if a scientist says, "I can't explain it naturally, so God must have done it," the "I can't explain it naturally" is perfectly scientific, but the "so God must have done it" is not, by definition, scientific.
It belongs in a different category of thought, perhaps in philosophical or theological understandings.
Understand, there is a boundary around science, a great wall, if you will, separating natural science from all other understandings.
Yes, you and I can cross that "barrier" at will, for us there is no boundary separating natural from supernatural or divine, but science cannot cross it and remain, by definition, science.
Really, it should not be a big deal for us.
If we wish to see God's Hand in nature, we just cannot ask for Science to point it out to us.
We must Seek and Find Him all on our own.
Praise God!