Life on Earth

The question came up the other day about life on Earth and did it need a creator. I proffered that because of the immense size of the pond and infinite complexity of the soup, life was guaranteed to have arisen. I felt a need via this venue to elaborate.

The attempts at creating artificial life that started with Miller and Urey, ended up with the creation of some organic molecules in-vitro. This is hardly life as we know it. It's not even a means of replication. But these attempts do not come anywhere near the "experiments" being conducted by nature at the start of the biosphere. There, we had all the building blocks of organic molecules, we had every source of energy imaginable from UV to mechanical to nuclear (radioactivity), and we had almost every conceivable catalyst--everything from platinum to clays and many we haven't even invented yet. WE also had a few billion years to come up with something that had the features that would enable it to evolve into life as we know it.

Although by any definition it was a random event, it was also, by virtue of the astronomical number of events taking place over eons, an inevitable one. It would have been a miracle for replicating and catalyzing molecules not to have been created.

No creator was needed but only because my creator knew how to put the right english on the ball that was set in motion 7 odd billion years ago. [I say, my creator, because we each have our own conception even with membership in a well-defined religion. I could ask any Jew, Christian, Muslim, Buddist, etc., 10 questions and I'll get as many different answers as I have respondents. Except, of course, when the rabbi, priest, cleric, or monk is listening]