Logic? I don't think you understand the term.
Is deferring belief in something with no evidence of existence un
reasonable?
And science doesn't claim to have "all the answers."
Science's purview is empirical facts. Concrete, measurable, testable
things. Questions of meaning, value, purpose, &c. are the purview of religion.
Science stays in its lane. Problems arise when religion doesn't, and makes factual claims about empirical reality, with no empirical supporting evidence. "
It doesn't work." Religion's answers are based on folklore.
Don't confuse spontaneous generation with abiogenesis.
The organic building blocks of life: amino acids, fatty acids, membranes, nucleic acids, self-replicating molecules and organic structures -- all are formed from ordinary chemistry. Were you aware of this?
Life vs non-life are not are not black-or-white. Life is a chemical continuüm. with no clear point where a chemical structure can definitively be called "alive."
I assume you agree that there was once a time where no life existed on Earth. So how, in your opinion, did it get here?I see only three possibilities:
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Abiogenesis by familiar, observed, chemical evolution.
*Panspermia.
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Magic, ie: effect without mechanism.
Panspermia just shifts the venue. It doesn't answer the question of origin.
Magic, in your words, "has never been observed." There is no evidence of the supernatural, yet the religious seem to think magic is a reasonable hypothesis. For the life of me I can't imagine why.
So what reasonable, observable, testable alternative remains?
The theory of evolution says
nothing about the origins of life. It deals only with anatomic, physiological or behavioral changes in existing organisms. Research is well on it's way to confirming this right now, with further evidence emerging monthly.
I don't see why you believe this is virtually impossible. It's familiar and easily observable chemistry, that can be reproduced in any high school chemistry lab. Yes, it is complex, and biology explains the many small steps that led to this complexity. No foolishness or failures. But it doesn't! "Evolution" means
change, not origin. You're conflating two, different disciplines.
I don't know what religious disinformation sites you're getting all this from, but "change," not origin, is the very definition of evolution. Evolution and abiogenesis are two, entirely different things, with two, entirely different mechanisms."Created?" All "evolutionists" believe life came from ordinary chemistry, and, once established, adapted and changed over time. There are no scientific observations of magical creation.What does purpose have to do with anything? Science deals with
facts. Purpose, value, meaning, &c are the purview of religion. They are not observable or measurable. Science has nothing to say about them,
Humanists are altruists, like Christ. They exalt human rights and well-being, not self. They believe in fairness, righteousness, justice and compassion --The values of Christ, not the values of Yahweh.
Logic? What does the algebra of logic have to do with this? No. Happiness exists everywhere, not just in Christians.