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Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first life: What did it look like? When did it appear? How did it get here? Imagine primordial earth, a churning cauldron of liquefied rock. Steaming, seething—a vast desolate wasteland, inhospitable to life. Yet somehow first life appeared. Maybe chemicals in a primordial soup spontaneously spawned a single-celled creature that continued to evolve. Or perhaps a transcendent Creator formed...

proper to try to understand the universe, the Earth, and all its life in naturalistic terms using only the evidence of our senses to evaluate how truthful an idea might be.9 In this, Eldredge identifies yet another contributor to scientists’ rejection of creationism. The sole content of the case for God’s supernatural role in bringing about life has been an attack on the evolutionary model. Many Christians think that by pointing out the many problems confronting origin-of-life researchers, they have
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