Origin of life

Resources

General

General resources dealing with multiple claims. See below for further resources.

Abiogenesis

Abiogenesis Pt. 2

Misunderstanding Abiogenesis

Videos by Jackson Wheat.

Biological Chemistry

Life From Scratch

Videos in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.

Relation of abiogenesis to evolutionary theory

Claim CB090: Evolution is baseless without a theory of abiogenesis

Brief response in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Probability and complexity

Claim CB010: The odds of life forming are incredibly small

Claim CB010.1: Even the simplest life is incredibly complex

Claim CB010.2: First cells could not come together by chance

Claim CB015: DNA needs proteins to form; proteins need DNA

Claim CB040: Life uses only left-handed amino acids

CF003. How could information, such as in DNA, assemble itself?

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Creationist Statistics

Video by Jackson Wheat.

See also Thermodynamics

Conditions on early Earth

Claim CB030: Early molecules would have decayed

Claim CB030.1: Early molecules would have been destroyed by ultraviolet light

Claim CB035.1: Earth's early atmosphere had abundant oxygen

Claim CB035.2: Earth's early atmosphere had no reducing gases

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Experimentation and observation

See below for resources dealing specifically with the Miller-Urey experiment and Louis Pasteur.

Claim CB020: Why is new life not still being generated today?

Claim CB025: Not all amino acids needed for life have been formed experimentally

Claim CB026: Abiogenesis experiments produce toxins, such as cyanide and formaldehyde

Claim CB050: Abiogenesis is speculative without evidence

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Louis Pasteur

Claim CB000: Pasteur proved life only comes from life (law of biogenesis)

Brief response in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Miller-Urey experiment

Claim CB035: Miller's experiments had an invalid assumption of the type of atmosphere

Claim CB035.1: Earth's early atmosphere had abundant oxygen

Claim CB035.2: Earth's early atmosphere had no reducing gases

Claim CB035.3: Amino acids are not generated from just CO2, nitrogen, and water

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

Chapter 2: Miller-Urey experiment

Part of a review by Nick Matzke in the TalkOrigins Archive of Jonathan Wells's book Icons of Evolution.

Miller Urey Experiment

Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.