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What in Yockey's statement is a contradiction to what I have said that Yockey said?

You have strongly implied that Yockey has said abiogenesis is impossible. The fact is that Yockey is on record saying the beginning of life is natural.

He also says we will not be able to find the exact history of the beginning. I agree with that, and I have said that a number of times on this forum.

The reason for that is the same reason you can read a secure, encrypted web page, but cannot discover the encryption key. Living things do not encode their DNA. They only decode. (See my link on Yockey for a discussion of this. It's in the review of his book. Please note that Yockey read the review and approved of it.) The encoding is buried (literally) in the history of variation and natural selection. We will never be able to recreate the exact steps of the encoding, even though every step is completely bound by natural causes.

You have strongly implied that Yockey has said abiogenesis is impossible.

I have implied or perhaps said that Yockey, Bohr and others have suggested that abiogenesis is unknowable or even impossible without an essential cause. I have personally asserted that it takes both faith and reason to approach "first cause" of either the universe(s) or life.

Much like wave/particle duality, position/momentum in the uncertainty principle and the ilk - faith and reason are complementary (reason cannot substitute for faith).