[jwalsh07]

Abiogenesis, unlike evolution, is not relegated to fossils, history and the genome. It is something that can be observed and repeated.

Having nothing against abiogenesis as a mechanism, it is nonetheless true that to date it has not been accomplished in a lab. Biogenesis is the law of the land and until somebody produces self replicating life in the lab, it will remain that way.

[RightWingNilla]

Having nothing against abiogenesis as a mechanism, it is nonetheless true that to date it has not been accomplished in a lab.

Depends on what you are expecting the experiments to show. Most of the work done in this area is to test for conditions where relatively simple organic polymers can self-replicate.

Biogenesis is the law of the land and until somebody produces self replicating life in the lab, it will remain that way.

These kind of arguments are equally bad for science and theology.