Diamonds also arise on their own. Do you think that they are easy to duplicate?
What's the one difference here? We can make diamonds, although not easily, but we can't make a cell!!! With all our technology we can't make life.
Don't conflate "natural" with "simple", please.
I don't think anything about life is simple. That's why I always hate when textbooks refer to prokaryotes as "simple cells." I think life and the universe are unbelievably complex which is why I think it was created by a God. The God.
The universe is quite capable of great complexity on it's own.
That is a very anthropomorphic statement. You act like the universie is making decisions on it's own. I don't think the Universe is capable of anything on it's own. Natural processes can carve rocks that, with imagination, look similar to objects but it can't create life from non-life. How does the third part of the cell theory go again? Oh yes; All cells come from preexisting cells.
[This message has been edited by keith63, 03-22-2004]