Origin of Life

God or Natural Processes

When considering how life began, there are only two options. Either life was created by an intelligent source (God) or it began by natural processes.

No Mechanism to Spark Life

No mechanism by which non-living matter can randomly spark itself into life has ever been demonstrated. Information must come from a source of information.

To creationists, the incredible workings of the genetic code are not a mystery to be explained but instead a marvel to be understood as one of God’s most incredible designs. How such a coding system (even in a simpler form) could have arisen through random interaction is yet another leap of faith by evolutionists.

Help From Stardust

By assuming organic compounds ejected by stars could have fortified the primordial solar system, asteroids and meteorites, and of course earth with the building blocks of life, evolutionary scientists see such findings as a source to seed the process of molecules-to-man evolution.

Origin of Life Topics

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Panspermia

Was life seeded on earth by intelligent alien beings from another planet?

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Primordial Soup

In a quiet pond somewhere on early earth, the many complex chemicals necessary for life came together to produce the first living cell—or did they?

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Synthetic Life

Is it possible for scientists to defy the law of biogenesis and create life in a laboratory or test tube?

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What Is Life?

What mysterious quality makes a creature alive at one moment but is absent the instant the creature dies? The Bible answers the question, “What is life?”

Articles About Origin of Life

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Did Scientists Just Witness a Key Step in the Origin of Complex Life?

Sept. 13, 2026
A recent headline suggests a breakthrough. Have researchers recently witnessed experimental support for the origin of complex life?
Ken Ham Blog Entry
Did Life Arise “Remarkably Soon” After Earth Became Habitable?

Sept. 10, 2026 from Ken Ham Blog
In the evolutionary view, early earth was not a pleasant place to live.
In-Depth Article
The Shifting Sand of Life’s Origin Story

April 18, 2026 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists’ history of early life on earth has been rewritten. What do their just-so stories reveal?
Ken Ham Blog Entry
Another Evolutionary Update: “Life Happened Fast”

Sept. 15, 2025 from Ken Ham Blog
Science writer Michael Marshall argues in his essay, “Life Happened Fast,” that life began far earlier and faster than once thought.
In-Depth Article
FECA, LECA, LUCA, and Flights of Fancy

Sept. 30, 2023 from Answers in Depth
The evolutionary explanation of complex life forms doesn’t add up.
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Did Simulating “Cosmic Evolution” Get Evolutionists Closer to the Origin of Life?

Jan. 23, 2023 from Ken Ham Blog
A recent article claims that by mimicking “cosmic evolution” in the lab, researchers have created some of the building blocks of life. But what’s really going on here?
In-Depth Article
Abiogenesis: Can Life Come from Non-Living Chemicals?

Sept. 22, 2021 from Answers in Depth
It is evident from both Scripture and observational science that abiogenesis is a myth, Genesis is real history, and God is the true life.
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Are Scientists “Clueless” About the Origin of Life?

Dec. 31, 2020 from Ken Ham Blog
Rice University professor Dr. James Tour correctly says life from non-life is “highly improbable” but doesn’t point back to the final arbiter of truth, God’s Word.
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Forget Slow-and-Gradual—New Study Says Life “Emerged Fully Formed”

Aug. 20, 2020 from Ken Ham Blog
Study suggests “chemical big bang” where life arose suddenly, kickstarting early evolutionary developments though it defies a scientific or biblical explanation.
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“Brussels Sprout” Meteorite: Source for Life on Earth?

Oct. 21, 2019 from Ken Ham Blog
When scientists received the sample of a four-pound meteorite that crashed down in Costa Rica, it smelled distinctly like Brussels sprouts!
In-Depth Article
Origin of Life Problems for Naturalists

Aug. 21, 2019 from Answers in Depth
The origin of life is a complicated biological problem for those who deny God’s existence. It is such an issue that many naturalists refuse even to discuss it.
Origins of Multicellular Organisms

July 23, 2019
One of the problems inherent in the evolutionary dogma is going from a single-celled organism, once such a thing exists, to a multi-celled organism.
Folding Molecules Give Insight to Origin of Life

April 13, 2019
Recently published research discusses the synthesis of a large molecule which folded into a ring pattern and compared it to the folding of proteins.
Is the Origin of Life a Scientific Question?

May 1, 2018
What if the best data, the best science, lead to that conclusion that there might be a Creator? Only extreme atheistic bias would preclude God’s existence.
Magazine Department Article
How Can People Believe All Life Evolved by Chance?

Jan. 1, 2018 from Answers Magazine
Why do so many intelligent people find the idea of molecules-to-man evolution compelling, while others consider it outrageously improbable?
Book Chapter
The Origin of Life

June 24, 2017 from Essays on Origins: Creation vs. Evolution
Evolutionists speculate that life gradually evolved from mere hydrogen in a series of stages.
In-Depth Article
Liquid Droplets Begat Life?

Jan. 30, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Biophysicists, observing the fascinating properties of liquid droplets, propose that liquid droplet physics could explain how life began.
In-Depth Article
Could Life Have Evolved Multicellular Systems?

Nov. 1, 2016 from Answers in Depth
The recent report of a 1.5-billion-year-old fossil1 has brought attention once again to the alleged evolution of multicellular systems.
Las Vegas, the Lottery, and the Origin of Life

July 14, 2016
All questions on the origin of life hinge on our understanding of genetics because the first cell couldn’t just form and then die.
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Chiral Molecule in Interstellar Cloud Said to Shed Light on Life’s Origins

June 30, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists hope the first chiral molecule discovered in interstellar space will shed light on the mystery of how life evolved its biochemical handedness.
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Do Deep-Sea “Purple Socks” Hold Early Evolutionary Secrets?

Feb. 25, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Analysis of newly discovered deep-sea species led evolutionists to say that Xenoturbella, resembling a discarded purple sock, can help us understand evolution.
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Pinpointing the “Accident” That Let Multicellular Life Evolve

Feb. 11, 2016 from Answers in Depth
If a computer simulation can trace a path for the evolution of multicellular organisms from single-celled ones, does that mean they actually evolved that way?
Book Chapter
1.3 The Origin of Life: DNA and Protein

Feb. 6, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life
It’s what we do know and can explain about DNA and protein and the laws of chemistry which suggests that life itself is the result of special creation.
Book Chapter
1.1 Where to Begin?

Jan. 23, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life
Reluctant and surprised, I finally concluded that what we read in God’s Word is the surest guide to understanding what we see in God’s world.