Self-proclaimed "bible believing Christians", (evo-phobic creationists) who say they adhere to a kindergarten-level woodenly literal interpretation of scripture, actually do not. Ask them whether they agree that the earth and the waters brought forth life, as Genesis 1 says, and they will only wriggle and squirm. 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. They have to cling to a belief in magic. I think it's because their faith is so weak and fragile.
It is exceedingly strange. They would rather picture a has-been, worn out, seedy conjurer, pulling mangy rabbits out of a threadbare top hat in a back street cabaret dive that has seen much better days! ;) There is no reason for biblical literalists, sensible Christians/Muslims/followers of Judaism and atheists to disagree about abiogenesis.
And even if Genesis is wrong, and life was poofed into existence by an unnatural magic man using his ju-ju, it would make not one jot of difference to evolution, which only starts when you have life, however it came about. Thus the bleat that "evolutionists" [sic] cannot explain abiogenesis is bleating up the entirely wrong tree. Still, the poor dears persist in calling it a "gotcha". It seems that it is all they have got.
Incidentally, nowhere in the bible will you find the phrase "reproduce after their kind(s)". Life was PRODUCED (by the earth and the waters) "after their kind(s)". In the English of King James' days, that meant "according to their type, sort or species". Languages - er - evolve. French versions have, «selon leur espèce», which means precisely the same as what the KJV is saying. The incoherent concept of "kind", beloved of, but never elucidated by creationists, is intended to mean "that which can never evolve 'outside' its classification", whatever that means. Thus the concept only appeared after, and is dependent upon, the discovery of the fact of evolution. The concept, if you can even call it a concept, is not a biblical one.
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