There is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on earth. Indeed, Francis Crick, who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA, is one biophysicist who finds this theory unconvincing. So why do biologists indulge in unsubstantiated fantasies in order to deny what is so patently obvious, that 200,000 amino acid chains, and hence life, did not appear by chance.
The answer lies in a theory developed over a century ago, which sought to explain the development of life as an inevitable product of the purely local natural process. Its author, Charles Darwin, hesitated to challenge the churches doctrine on the creation, and publically, at least, did not trace the implications of his ideas back in their bearing on the origin of life. However, he privately suggested that life itself may have been produced in "some warm little pond, "and to this day his followers have sought to explain the origins of terrestial life in terms of a process of chemical evolution from a primordial soup. But, as we have seen, this theory does not fit the facts.
The Intelligent Universe, page 23
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