No Abiogenesis, no Evolution, then what?

Life has always existed. In the beginning there was life.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

If we look at the evidence, there's no indication that life has not always existed. It doesn't seem that there was some moment when there was no life, or some creation event.When we look, we find signs of life throughout the geological column. We look at fossils and find they go back billions of years, as far back as we can go. What we see is that life tends to get simpler as we go back but still there. When we get to places where we thought there might not be life we still find the signs they were there, tracks and tunnels of softbodied critters that would not have fossilized.Until someone can show evidence that there was a time before life, the only possible conclusion is that life has always existed.

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Well, there is ample evidence that is false, so that option may be safely disregarded under any scenario.

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All the evidence seems to point towards life always existing.No matter where we look we find signs of life.When we look at the geological layers we find life.When we look around we find life.When we look in the depths we find life.When we look at the Black or White Smokers existing under unbelievable pressures away from all sunlight, we find life.When we look in boiling hot springs, we find life.When we look under the ice in the Arctic, we find life.When we look under the ice in the AntArctic, we find life.When we look in the deserts, the seas, the mountains, the rims of volcanos, the plains, the valleys, the shores, we find life.Life is everywhere.Where is the evidence that it had a beginning?

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The only place we've examined is here on earth. Until there is evidence otherwise, why would we make any judgement about other than here on earth?But there is no evidence that life does not exist in other places or that it has not existed for all time.

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Really?We've made similar assumption many times in the past only to soon find out we were wrong. For example we were pretty sure that life could not exist in the cold, dark high pressure environment of the deepest marine trenches. We were pretty sure life could not exist within the ice at the poles. We were pretty sure that life could not exist in hot sulpher springs.Yet in each case, we found we were wrong.

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for life to exist something must exist, but there is no reason to thing that where something exists, life exists.

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There are even microbes that can live IN a nuclear reactor. So far we have not found an environment where life cannot exist. Everywhere we look we find life. That's why sterilization is such a big problem.

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there is ample evidence that life exists everywhere and in every era we've examined.It's far more likely that Life has existed forever.

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Check Message 44Use Peek (lowerright) to see how I did it.

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That's OT both in this thread and forum. We're in a Faith forum and thus beliefs about GOD are acceptable and appropriate.Now if you can show evidence to support the position that life had a beginning ...

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