Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny—What About the Origin of Life?

Massimo Pigliucci acknowledges, “The origin of life is one question that science will be pondering for some time to come . . . be wary of oversimplified answers found in introductory biology textbooks.”38 God is eliminated not by evidence and proof but by definition. What does that leave? Scrambling desperately to get along without a Creator, scientists offer all manner of speculation (which is all they have), as does Pigliucci himself. Consider the following (uncertainties/guesses are italicized):

“The general path leading to the organization of life seems to have been something like this: 1. Primordial soup. . . ; 2. Nucleo-proteins (similar to modern tRNAs); 3. Hypercycles [which] could have coexisted before the origin of life. . . ; 4. Cellular hypercycles . . . eventually enclosed in a primitive cell made of lipids. . . ; 5. Progenote (first self-replicating, metabolizing cell, possibly made of RNA and proteins, with DNA entering the picture later on.”