Abiogenesis is the idea that life arose from the non-living material of the world. In contrast, biogenesis is the idea of "spontaneous generation", with living things appearing, fully formed, from once-living matter, such as mice appearing from stores of grain. Abiogeneses is not an "evolutionary" idea. Evolution is concerned with how and why living organisms can change over generations.
I can't prove abiogenesis. Nobody claims to be able to do so. But Genesis says that God created the earth and the waters, and they brought forth life. God 'let' them.
So according to Genesis, God created life indirectly, by creating a material world that brought forth life.
Strangely though, many "Bible-believing Christians" do NOT believe it. It seems that they do not have enough faith in their God to believe that he was capable of creating a world that could bring forth life.
If only the "Bible believers" believed their Bibles, as they claim to, there would be no disagreements between them or anyone else over abiogenesis.
These are the relevant verses from the KJV version of Genesis 1.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
By the way, living things were brought forth "after their kind". Nowhere does it say "reproduce after their kind". Languages change. The French version of "after their kind" is <<selon leur espèce>> which means "according to their type, sort, or species". The creationist notion of "kind" is very recent, and is not biblical. It only came about after the development of evolutionary science.
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