Time to stir the pot. Didn't I see within the last couple years on Discovery Channel, or Nova, or some such--or was it some crackpot thing like Chariots of the Gods--the idea advanced that life on Earth was "seeded" by an advanced civilization of aliens?
If this *was* put forth by some otherwise respectable scientist (or similar fellow traveler), please address your question to them.
If you are addressing your question to the Christians, I had the impression that one of the tenets of Christianity was the eternal existence of God...
If you're asking the Muslims, get a gun and a good lawyer :-)
Cheers!
"If this *was* put forth by some otherwise respectable scientist (or similar fellow traveler), please address your question to them."
This was one of Francis Crick's babies. Unfortunately he is no longer with us. But he always said it would only answer the questions here. It puts off the questions to somewhere else, where maybe abiogenesis might be more readily achieved.