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Life is one of the greatest mysteries, but will we ever explain it? Scientists believe life started somewhat spontaneously in a prebiotic soup here on planet earth some 3 and a half billion years ago. But how this actually occurred, is somehwat of a mystery. Life is the one miraculous fact of existence which we have yet to fully wrest from God's hands, so proving how life started, will be the final death blow to religion and god. Or will it?

I am not saying I believe in god, but I find he may be hard to disprove. Consider this, in order to determine how life started from non-living material, humans will have to posit a good scenario to describe how such spontaneous life generation could occurr. We know that amino acids and various building blocks of life might be present in comets and that these could have been present on the early earth and perhaps tumultuous conditions such as hot volcanic springs and active lighting and weather could have given the spark to allow the building blocks to begin reacting. But going from normal chemical reactions to an actual reproducing organism with volitional will is quite a leap. Nonetheless, it should be science's goal to explain how this can happen, and then to try to reproduce it.

The problem comes when we reproduce it. Reproduction is absolutely necessary as final proof according to the way science works. However, if we reproduce life ourselves, would we be disproving god, or proving him? So it seems science belies itself. For science believes that to show how life started we must recreate it, but does science realize this would prove that you CAN create life? We will then be forced to accept the possibility that we could have been created by another lifeform. So you see, it is impossible to prove that life can not be created. Proving life can be created spontaneously without aid, will only prove that it can be created non-spontaneously and with aid as well. Kind of freaky huh? Therefore it is impossible to prove that life can only arise spontaneously unless you are there to witness it for yourself in a natural, non experimental setting.