What Is the Origin of Life? -Conclusion of Moods Change - Riddles Remain

You may know that origin-of-life scientists have not ceased trying to formulate a plausible scenario for the drama about the first appearance of life. Nevertheless, their new scripts are not proving to be convincing.  For example, Klaus Dose of the Institute of Biochemistry in  Mainz, Germany, observed:  "At present all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance. 

Even at the 1996 International Conference on the Origin of Life, no solutions were forthcoming. Instead, the journal Science reported that the nearly 300 scientists who convened had "grappled with  the riddle of how [DNA and RNA] molecules first appeared and how they evolved into self-reproducing cells." 

Intelligence and advanced education were required to study and even begin to explain what occurs at the molecular level in our cells.  Is it reasonable to believe that complicated steps occurred first in a "prebiotic soup," undirected, spontaneously, and by chance? Or was more involved? 

Next time: What Is the Origin of Life? - Why the Riddles?

From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?