It's both frustrating and amusing watching atheists struggle to explain the origin of life. "It was fast"  ...  "It was simple"...  lol.,(reply>), @Daniel Gower The emergence of life is an open question. Everything Lee says is speculative. We'll see how the field evolves, but so far the creation from "nothing" doesn't seem like a ridiculous option, since we don't have many reasons to assume life is anything special but an ordinary chemical reaction.,(reply>), @Jakub Šebek I think the more interesting question is which takes more faith?  To believe this/we came from nothing, meaning no intelligent designer, just elements and energy, takes an immense amount of faith. Where else has such a phenomenon ever been observed?  Life from nothing.  Or believing an omniscient spiritual being designed and created the universe.  The book that tells this story has survived for thousands of years. It explains our purpose while on earth as well as how we can live forever with our creator. True or not, the latter is a much happier and more hopeful outlook. All the science is still there, but that also was according to God's design.,(reply>), @Daniel Gower That's true. To be fair though, making up a story about creation is significantly easier than describing it empirically.,(reply>), @Jakub Šebek what a strange question. Most people would consider faith in a creator as the source of human life "religion".,(reply>), What does religion of all things have to do with this?