Science Forums 2

[CraigD]

I think you’ve written a fair summation of the modern scientific idea of abiogenesis – life from non-life.

I’m not sure I understand what point you’re making. Do you believe, or disbelieve that this idea is a accurate description of the origin of life?

While many Christians, among them the most vocal and activistic, strongly deny the possibility of abiogenesis, I’ve known many (I’m not myself a theist, though I was raised in the Christian tradition) who were perfectly willing to accept scientific theories such as the Big Bang as consistent with their beliefs. Several modern Bishops or Rome have made statement to the effect that scientifically revelation cannot conflict with Christian faith. The gist of this position is that the Supreme Creator is certainly capable of having created a Big Bang from which all matter and energy emerged to produce the universe we now observe, including biological life in agreement with the theory of evolution. Therefore, if the soundest application of rational thought concludes the Big Bang and evolution to true, then, to the best of our knowledge, they are. Less soundly reasoned objections, including arguments based on scripture and doctrine, are assumed to be due to human fallibility.