God created the mud. A favorite verse for your Sunday morning enjoyment, from Psalm 139, which is about our creation:
(vs 15)
“My frame was(bones were) not hidden from Thee,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.”
Notice this is not the womb—but the earth. God knows the location of every little electron, neutron and proton that makes us up. cool, eh?
Back to the article:
“One idea is the creation of organisms that could soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into hydrocarbon biofuels. In this way, synthetic life forms could play a major role in helping in the battle against global warming, it is claimed.”
Great—then the plants will have no source of energy for photosynthesis. They are quite capable of ingesting more than we are presently producing.
Well, mud is created by rain and soil mixed together. And rain is created by condensation of clouds and soil is created from breakdown of rocks. Clouds are created by evaporation and rocks are created from millions of years of pressure.
My point is that what you can argue for is that God created the Big Bang, which created time, matter, and energy. The rest is history, of course.
I don’t take religious justification for the material world seriously. Scriptures do not explain we can see, feel, and measure, because people who wrote those did not understand science.