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Originally Posted by photon
Well the theory of how life started is called abiogenesis, to which there are a few hypothesis currently. Scientists are looking for a natural explanation for abiogenesis.
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So it is separate from evolution? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Evolution is a recursive sequence, that is at every step of the chain what we have is defendant upon what we had in the previous step. So you start at humans and work your way backwards until you get to the origin of life. Then once you are at the origin of life, in order to prove the whole thing, you need to prove that base case.
I am a computer guy, so that's how I think. I realize that with the natural sciences that base case isn't required but without it I am surprised that
the lack of creation (or its impossibility) can be considered a certainty without that last building block.