What point are you actually trying to make here? You keep on attacking the state of research on the process of abiogenesis but why is that at all significant?
We have plentiful evidence of how things came about up to the point about 4.4 billion years ago when life started (somehow or other) and plenty of evidence of how it evolved subsequently. Given that all of that was the result of natural processes, are you actually suggesting that it would be a sensible approach to abandon the working assumption that the start of life, that one part of the whole picture, was also natural?
Are you actually trying to compare that with religious faith?
Anyone can believe whatever they choose. Whatever working assumption that is chosen is fine, no problem.
My education and training is in the law. I spent my working life identifying and evaluating evidence.
One cannot assume evidence exists based upon the fact that other evidence allegedly exists. Because someone robbed a bank, it is not to be assumed as fact that he had been a juvenile delinquent.
My concern is not that people spend their entire life in OOL research or that all kinds of experiments are going on related to abiogenesis. I certainly have no objection to the results of these experiments being made known or written about.
My sole objection is that intelligent people buy into the imaginary process as if it was established scientific fact. It must be is not it is.
Faith is faith. The Bible defines faith as ¨ the evidence of things hoped for, the reality of things not seen¨.
It is a perfect definition of religious faith, and it is a perfect definition of what abiogenesis believers have.
There have been some very interesting discoveries, however, they are not evidence of abiogenesis, they are evidence of the results.
Since Miller Urey has been kicked around, I will use it as an example. It produced 9 amino acids and some proteins. The experiment was carefully designed and was continually adjusted. A point was reached where oxygen, a strong oxidizer, was added in extremely precise limited amounts. All chemicals and gasses were carefully purified. Oxygen is a strong oxidizer, too much and it can be destructive to the organics.
So, Miller Urey proved that 9 amino acids and proteins can be produced in a laboratory. An accomplishment, but evidence for abiogenesis ? Only in the most extremely tenuous way. Yet it is considered and taught as proof of abiogenesis,
This is what I object to, the packaging of one thing, so that it appears as another.
The pretense that a washer proves a Lamborghini.
Faith is faith, to pretend a belief is established without evidence is disingenuous.