“ABIOGENESIS” IS IRRELEVANT TO EVOLUTION

 

Many years ago Abiogenesis was the accepted “scientific” explanation for the creation of life.

 

It has long been accepted that this is not the process by which life came into being. 

 

Definition of “Abiogenesis”

by Jeff Miller, PhD

 

Abiogenesis is the theory that the original evolution of life or living organisms cam from inorganic or inanimate substances. In order to construct any convincing theory of abiogenesis, we must take into account the condition of the Earth about 4 billion years ago. Abiogenesis is an old term for what is called spontaneous generation.

 

Louis Pasteur disproved the abiogenesis theory experimentally. Note: Louis Pasteur is a French scientist who is now known as father of immunology. The theory of spontaneous generation was also disproved by showing maggots didn’t arise out from a dirty cloth unless there were maggot eggs present in it already.

 

Abiogenesis refers to a mechanism by which living things originate from non- living things spontaneously. This idea was proposed by Aristotle and is known commonly as theory of spontaneous generation. The idea was believed true for a long time because it supported the idea that God made humans from non-living things such as sand.

 

Scientific studies such as that of Louis Pasteur showed that living things could not spontaneously produce from inanimate objects with the introduction of laboratory instruments and microbial techniques. Just living things can arise from another life by the process of reproduction. Thus the spontaneous generation hypothesis became outdated and the biogenesis hypothesis became more generally accepted. 

 

The Law of Biogenesis tells us that in nature, life comes only from life of its kind (Miller, 2012). Therefore, abiogenesis (i.e., life arising from non-living materials) is impossible, according to the scientific evidence. How then can atheistic theories like Darwinian evolution be considered acceptable? There is a growing trend among evolutionists today to attempt to sidestep the problem of abiogenesis by contending that evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life, but rather is a theory which starts with life already in existence and explains the origin of all species from that original life form. However, this approach is merely wishful thinking – an effort to avoid the logical import of the Law of Biogenesis.

 

Historically, evolutionists have recognized that abiogenesis is a fundamental assumption inherent in evolutionary theory, and intuitively must be so. In 1960, British evolutionary physiologist, G.A. Kerkut, listed abiogenesis as the first assumption in a list of non-provable assumptions upon which evolution is founded. “The first assumption is that non-living things gave rise to living material, i.e., spontaneous generation occurred.” (Kerkut, 1960,p.6).

 

Evolutionary theory is an attempt to explain the origin of species through natural means – without supernatural Creation. Logically, unless you concede the existence of God and subscribe to theistic evolution in order to explain the origin of life (a position that has been shown to be unsustainable, cf. Thompson,2000), abiogenesis must have originally occurred in order to commence the process of Darwinian evolution. Abiogenesis is required by evolution as the starting point.

 

Further, atheistic evolutionary geologist, Robert Hazen, who received his doctoral degree from Harvard, admitted that he assumes abiogenesis occurred. In his lecture series, Origins of Life, he says, “In this lecture series I make a basic assumption that life emerged by some kind of natural process. I propose that life arose by a sequence of events that are completely consistent with natural laws of chemistry and physics.” (2005, emp. Added).

 

Again evolution is an attempt to explain life through natural means, and abiogenesis must go hand in hand with such a theory. Hazen further stated that in his assumption of abiogenesis, he is “like most other scientists” (2005). It makes perfect sense for atheistic evolutionists to admit their belief in abiogenesis. Without abiogenesis in place, there is no starting point for atheistic evolution to occur.

 

However, many evolutionists do not want to admit such a belief too loudly, since such a belief has…

ABSOLUTELY NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IT!

IT IS A BLIND FAITH!

 A “RELIGIOUS DOGMA” to them.