From what I've read, no one knows the environments of the early earth so no one can prove abiogenesis did or did not occur. I'm fine with that. I have only experienced the natural world so I'd lean toward a natural explanation of how life started even though I can't prove it. You don't have to accept it was natural but you also can't show me it was impossible. Like God himself, I can't prove He doesn't exist anymore than you can prove he does.
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I've already proved God exists to you via the incontrovertible imperatives of logic, mathematics and science. You just refuse to follow the ramifications of those imperatives. Ultimately, your lack of conviction comes down to your lack of faith that the pertinent imperatives of logic, mathematics and science are true. You generally adhere to them just fine . . .
until you don't on matters of ultimate origin.
Once again, you really need to read my article. You haven't the faintest clue what's possible. You just opined in the above that maybe the earliest lifeform (microbe) was as small as an amine! That's akin to saying elephants can fly.
Actually, from geological deposits and the earliest fossils, we
do know the environmental conditions that generally prevailed when life first appeared. The atmosphere was generally oxidizing, and the geological conditions were obviously conducive to microscopic lifeforms, the earliest of which were, apparently, cyanobacteria, arising no latter than 3.5 billion years ago and probably as early as almost 3.8 billion years ago.
The only definitively meaningful relevance early Earth conditions have on the matter go to their conduciveness to the existence and sustenance of microbial life. They ultimately have no definitively meaningful relevance to
proving abiogenesis occurred. Objectively speaking, abiogenesis either occurred or it didn't. Period. Ultimately, the reasons abiogenesis can never be proven are (1) because precellular life cannot be coherently conceptualized as anything more than a hypothetical fuzzy-wuzzy and (2) because an instance of abiogenesis cannot be observed
—not now, not ever!
(See
post #194 for why, in which I sarcastically falsified
toobfreak's idiotic notion of the latter.)
Look, I'm certainly not the best-informed writer on the topic of abiogenesis. I have no doubt that others could better summarize the most pertinent findings of the research since Miller-Urey for the laymen reader, though, given its scope, roughly 70 years of research, I don't see how one could do so more concisely. Arguably, the article is a small book that would take the average laymen at least two hours to adequately digest. I made it as simple for the laymen as I know how without reducing the matter to a cartoon.
Seventy years of research!
You're asking me to summarize the real-world ramifications of the findings on a message board. If you would
just read the article, you would realize just how ridiculously naive that is . . . but don’t take offense. It took me nearly six months to research and write it in my spare time, followed by weeks of revisions. It's fair to say that at least 60% of my prior understanding of things was "through a glass darkly".
I don't conceal my underlying bias or my opinion of the findings, but that doesn't mean I don't accurately and objectively present the findings of the very best and most significant peer-reviewed research.