Originally Posted By: paul
"...to win a case you need evidence of some sort that the jury will consider."
"you should have proof of what you say."
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"...and remember your the one on sciences side claiming that science can explain how life developed.

and an explanation is not a gathering of assumptions and speculations."
...so how do you define "an explanation." Paul, I think you're getting "explanation" and "proof" conflated in your postings.
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You asked why (and how), not who; so I was answering the “Why would the elements develop into life" question.
Entropy is the answer. It's part of the "intelligent" design underlying this Creation.

If you define God as the Creator, then once you have a Creation such as this...
Life develops inexorably, given a sufficiently diverse environment. Recall that early Earth had a "reducing" atmosphere.

You don't need to define God as also creating living systems,
if your definition recognizes He designed the system to do that naturally.
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Sciences, such as thermodynamics and physics and chemistry, are ways of revealing the design of the system.
We are the
eyes of our ancestors.

We are the universe, comprehending itself. We are (ultimately) the eyes of the elements.

...but if all your eyes saw of 'dissipative systems'
was about the rusting of iron, then you need to look further.
Search: dissipative systems Prigogine.

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~ Life is just Nature's Process for Converting Light into Heat (Life is the most evolved of dissipative systems).


Pyrolysis creates reduced carbon! ...Time for the next step in our evolutionary symbiosis with fire.