Abiogenesis Revisited

https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/abiogenesis-revisited.html

Let's get a number of things clear.

When we talk about evolution without spelling out exactly what we mean, by default, we mean biological evolution - the fact that the forms of living organisms change over time, and how and why they do. 

From https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolution-101/an-introduction-to-evolution/  

"Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with inherited modification. This definition encompasses everything from small-scale evolution (for example, changes in the frequency of different gene versions in a population from one generation to the next) to large-scale evolution (for example, the descent of different species from a shared ancestor over many generations)."

When we talk of abiogenesis, we are talking about the hypotheses concerning the origin of the first living organisms, it is, as defined by Oxford Languages, "the original evolution of life or living organisms from inorganic or inanimate substances".

Biogenesis, in contrast, is life coming from life.

Now although creationists call all the sciences that falsify their beliefs "evolutionist", geology, astronomy, etc., we can see that abiogenesis is not evolutionary. By the definitions I have given above, you cannot have biological evolution before you have life.

Creationists continually insist that we do not have a full explanation of the origin of the first things you would call living. This is true. Nobody claims that we have a full explanation. 

But it makes no difference to biological evolution. And their insistence that we cannot "prove" abiogenesis is irrelevant. However life first arose, it didn't start evolving until it did arise.

The other strange thing about creationists is that their own scripture, which they claim to take literally, claims that the earth and the waters - non-living substances, DID bring forth the first life! They claim to believe scripture while at the same time disbelieving it!

Yes, Genesis 1 says that God created the world, and the world brought forth life, but I have no interest in such a speculation. I don't care whether you believe it or not. But if he did create the world, the world brought forth life. And once it is brought forth, it starts to evolve. How it came to be is irrelevant to evolution.

Here are my other pages on abiogenesis and Genesis.
https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/abiogenesis.html
https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/bringing-forth.html
https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/abiogenesis_22.html
https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/genesis-commentary.html

And by Glenn Morton, now deceased, once a YEC associated with the "Institute for Creation Research" on the Plain Reading of Genesis 1. https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/plain-reading-of-genesis-1.html