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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.
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The sciences of investigative Geology and Paleantology allowed us to derive some fairly well established premises. As a matter of fact, the process of the creation of life occurred over such an immense time frame that it boggles the mind, considering that it took approximately 2 billion years just to evolve eukaryotes from single-celled life which contained just a few simple nucleotide sequences. Not exactly what I would call a spontaneous occurrence.
The original life forms were anaerobic and came into being about 4.2 billion years ago. It is generally believed by experts that oil is the waste product of the digestion of the ferrite substrata of this earth by a bacterial type of fungal mold which metabolises in the absence of oxygen. Those early life forms would be forerunners, if not direct analogues.
Oxygen entered the atmosphere about 3.5 billion years ago and then we have the beginnings of "life", that is self-contained photosynthetic reactions, yielding eventually blue-green algae and early aerobic bacteria. Some of this life evolved eventually into sponge spicules and marine algae which are dated at about 1 billion years ago. About 650 million years before the present day we see the emergence of microscopic trilobyte-like creatures with a clearly defined symmetry, ie. left and right side, mouth and anus.
God doesn't actually enter the picture until about thirty-three hundred years ago, around the time when Moses went looking for Him in the 'celestial river' ie. the Milky Way rising out of the southern Nile at night. Everybody thinks he went east by north east but that is just assumption and the geographical data on which that is based were entered into the bible to support that misconception much later. There is some fairly compelling evidence to support the idea that he went south, and that he did actually find someone (God?) on top of a kind of mountain, more like a mesa, but that's another thread.