[theDentist]

The primordial soup would be full of things...

Lunchtime!!!

[Onelifetogive]

Somewhere on Earth, close to 4 billion years ago, a set of molecular reactions flipped a switch and became life.

...and I thought Christianity required a lot of faith...

[Kenny Bunkport]

Scientists try to imagine this animating event by simplifying the processes that characterize living things.

Nice try attempting to get away from "irreducible complexity," but it won't work.

[atomicpossum]

omewhere on Earth, close to 4 billion years ago, a set of molecular reactions flipped a switch and became life.

This would be on the fifth day, then?

[Neoliberalnot]

YEs, this is very much the way my Ford Taurus appeared in a field in front of my house. Why is it that secularists believe that only humans have the power to create anything?

[Theo]

How is it that science can speak on the origins of life? How is this testable, repeatable, falsifiable, etc.?

I'm just a dumb believer in the Scriptures, with no PhD. after my name -- I need some help with this....

[Rudder]

Science writers should know something about science. This first paragraph is useless with its absence of coherent information, e.g., "This cycle is where all evolution emanated from," Ferry says. "It is the father of all life."---What cycle? There's none mentioned in the text before it.

[shekkian]

Wow!!! All this time I thought it was as simple as a word from God. (sarc off)

[sirchtruth]

Ah yes, the ever-evolving religion of evolution trying desparately to come up with some forminable hypothesis, educated guess, "Anything", to foward their belief system, and give the cultist followers hope!

I guess it's really dumb, ignorant, and intellectually amiss to dare believe "God" actually created life, like it states in a book over 5000 years old? I mean a book that has made claims which never have been proven false is just a place where it would be too convient to start? Eventhough, with the discoveries of science proving the books claims, It's just too bad elitist scientist can't drop their piotic ways and look toward the claims for the origins of life.

[microgood]

Somewhere on Earth, close to 4 billion years ago, a set of molecular reactions flipped a switch and became life.

And scientists wonder why people do not believe them. This kind of wild, unsubstantiated, random and irrational speculation is one of the main reasons. The evidence for young earth is as valid as this speculation.

[DungeonMaster]

The battle between two religions continues.

[ahayes]

Rarely have so many people made so many ignorant criticisms of something so vague. "It's impossible to tell what they're saying, but I know it's gotta be stupid!"

It would help if I had access to this journal, but I don't.

[pgyanke]

Ping-a-ding!

[Physicist]

Somewhere on Earth, close to 4 billion years ago, a set of molecular reactions flipped a switch and became life.

I expect that if we could know every step in the sequence from nonlife to life, the transition would be so smooth that nobody would agree on exactly when the threshold was crossed. It would be like pinpointing when when the Romans stopped speaking Latin and switched to Italian.

[B-Chan]

Somewhere on Earth, close to 4 billion years ago, a set of molecular reactions flipped a switch and became life

...and we know this how, exactly?

Abiogenesis is pure science fiction. Such a thing has never been observed to occur. However life originated, it wasn't by chance -- the odds are simply too high against it given the age of the universe.