Does anyone know where to look and what to look for? Also, newly-emerging proto life would most likely be eaten by bacteria.
Actually, I remember studying Pasteur's experiment (scientific experiment, no less) that proved it doesn't happen.
That is quite absurd. Pasteur showed that bacteria, molds, etc, don't form in chicken broth, milk, etc, under sterile conditions. He showed absolutely nothing about, say, sea water circulating thorough volcanic "chimneys" with pyrite surface chemistry.
Volcanic "chimneys" with pyrite surface chemistry?
Ah but they have looked there. Alas no proto life.
Does anyone know where to look and what to look for? Also, newly-emerging proto life would most likely be eaten by bacteria.
Ahh, no, I'm not lettin' ya skate on that. I'm holding your rhetorical feet to the fire :P
We'd surely see EVIDENCE of this going on...and we don't. We have microsopes, dontchaknow. Didn'tchaknow?
Scientists have abiogenesis down so pat, with very detailed explanations about "what must have happened," that you can't change course 180 degrees and claim we don't know what to look for. We have a pretty good idea, and the microscopes with which to do it.
Besides, we'd have "bumped into" the process and discovered bigger things eatin' littler things by now.
Rather telling that we haven't. :P
Sauron