Richard Dawkins.
I totally agree with being open-minded, provided that does not mean, “you must believe what I believe”, since that would be irrational. I totally agree that we should use our brains, they are, after all, a gift from God.
The origin of life
There are two main theories for the origin of life.
1. Organic life came into being from dead, inorganic components. There was no design or purpose. We are all descended from that first single celled ancestor. From this came fish. From fish came amphibians. From amphibians came reptiles. From reptiles came mammals.
2. God created life with design and purpose.
Let’s examine the evidence.
Atheism and science have no satisfactory explanations for the origin of life. Scientists have made amino acid soup but this is a million miles away from single celled organisms.
Oparin proposed a theory that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical evolution of carbon-based molecules within a primordial soup that could be created in an oxygen-free atmosphere through the action of sunlight. He proposed that the “spontaneous generation of life” did occur once, but was now impossible because the conditions found in the early earth had changed, and the presence of living organisms would immediately consume any spontaneously generated organism. He proposed that organic molecules would combine in ever-more complex fashions until they formed coacervate droplets.
According to the Wikipedia: Coacervates were famously proposed by Alexander Oparin as crucial in first theory of abiogenesis (origin of life). This theory supposed that metabolism predated information
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