Yeah besides the fact the abiogensis theory has produced nothing, which incidentally, even if they could synthesize life somehow in a controlled enviroment, would prove nothing. I mean, what would they say, that it didn't take intelligence to produce life?
It's not a case of just extrapolating backwards. Even if somehow miraculously a simple life form spawned for no reason from fundamental chemicals. Natural selection and mutation do not and cannot explain how the information in the genome somehow expanded to greater complexity. Natural selection and mutation only produces recombination, losses, or in events like downs, addition of redundant information. The human genome contains about 3 billion nucleotides. If the earth was 4.5 billion years old that means life would have had to form quickly and then somehow add this information at a rate of about 1/year. Modern science has never observed such an event to happen.
Also, to atheists, what exactly is this "life force" phenomena that causes all these fundamental chemicals in our bodies to keep doing what they do?
a lack of proof of a rival theory does not equate to proof of another theory. sorry, logic doesnt work like that.
so working on your idea that the likely hood of 1 nucleotide per year has not been observed in science, how does 3 billion in an instant make more sense?
that life force as you are calling it is more appropriately named bio-chemistry. good job trying to make a science sound mysterious. to answer your question, how does it keep working? well it probably has something to do with the constant intake of foods and the biological processes of digestion. but thats just hocus pocus anyways.
again, lack of total knowledge does not imply that you are right, it only implies that the scientific explanation isnt perfect. wow, ground breaking.
just because you do not understand the underlying principles does not mean they are incorrect. if you wanted to learn bio-chemistry, all you have to do is go to school and you will see the proof for yourself. if your willing to commit the time, you can understand.
talk about irony... what if physics and chemistry and all this mumbo jumbo voodoo magic was really how god did his good works in this universe?
do you think atoms are fucking made up? what about cells and bacteria? do you think science just made up some theories that sounded cool and just started looking for proof that they were right? science is based on observation of the natural world. we see with our own eyes what we study.
my problem is that people are basing their view on the world on a book. if you knew the history of that book and what has been done it is name, i doubt you would take the book at face value.
the great deluge was said to cover the entire earth. thats an emotional measurement if ever ive seen one. how would a person in those times know how big the earth was? you know what the earth was to that person? it was the distance his legs could carry him and his imagination. now ive got an imagination too, but ive traveled very long distances. so when i say the world was flooded, you damn well know its a big place that got flooded. when someone whos world is maybe 100 miles at best is flooded, well its probably not that big. its probably 20 miles at best. besides, once that flood happened, how would you know how far you actually traveled in your boat to verify any claims? stars? sorry its raining. compass and speed measurements? sorry that hocus pocus wasnt invented by science for quite a few years later. the biblical accounts of the creation are simply stories to fill in the blanks. if god intended us to be dumb as rocks, do you think al gore would have invented the internet?