Unbelievable. Simple carbon compounds are combined in the right soil conditions, and from that we're to assume that they not only organized themselves into vastly complex patterns of codified information, but spontaneously generated life. I wish I could have that of faith.
No one is asking anyone to have "faith" here. The article demonstrates that certain organic compounds (basic building blocks of life) can arise spontaneously under the right circumstances. There's several links still missing to make a complete picture of abiogenesis, scientists will readily admit that. Abiogenesis is not as complete a theory as biological evolution, which has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. However, there are a lot of pieces of the picture that have come together.
This doesn't mean we should stop looking for reasons, though. That is what science is all about.
Its called Kitty Litter.
"Unbelievable. Simple carbon compounds are combined in the right soil conditions, and from that we're to assume that they not only organized themselves into vastly complex patterns of codified information, but spontaneously generated life. I wish I could have that of faith."
Well, Genesis says that man was formed from clay into which life was breathed. But I am still waiting for scientists to offer a mechanism for spontaneous generation. Until that time I must say they offer no more than Genesis does.
The science behind abiogensis is all about what is possible. If we find a number of different conditions that lead to some sort of life forming we will have shown that life on earth forming spontaneously is not fantasy. No one is supposing that the research will lead to 'the' one path life on earth did take. To poke around into the possible paths does not take faith, it does take curiosity, patience and education.
And this can be repeated over and over and over.....