The scientific Law of Biogenesis says that life only comes from life.1

1. This scientific law is firmly established by all known observations. In order to believe that life came from non-life, we would need to reject all known observations. The beginning of life seems to require a supernatural beginning.

2. Scientist Walt Brown summarizes this point:

   1. “Spontaneous generation (the emergence of life from nonliving matter) has never been observed. All observations have shown that life comes only from life.”1

Scientific estimates for life arising from non-life by random chance (spontaneous generation) are statistically impossible – because the molecular building blocks are extremely complex.

• It's important to note that statistics identified below are clearly subject to changes as more studies are done; however, the overall point remains the same:

• Scientist Fred Hoyle estimated that the chance of spontaneous generation of proteins for life is 1 in 10^40,000.3 That is one chance in 10 with 40,000 zeros, a number beyond comprehension. Mathematicians generally believe that anything with a lower probably than 1 / 10^50 is a statistically impossible by chance.

  • “The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40 thousand naughts [zeros] after it. It is enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.”3

  • Fred Hoyle equated the chance of this happening “…is about the same as the probability that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard could assemble a 747 from the contents therein.”3

• Wait, it gets worse!

  • According to Mark Eastman and Chuck Missler, Hoyle’s estimate does not include DNA, RNA or the walls of a cell.2 Consequently, there is an even lower possibility once these factors are included. They claim a better estimate might be from Harold Morowitz, a Yale University physicist, who estimated the chance of spontaneous generation of a life coming from nonlife is one chance in 10^100,000,000,000.4 This number is incomprehensible and statistically impossible.

• Francis Crick, co-discover of DNA, admitted in 1982 that life from non-life is seemingly a miracle:

  • “An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.”5

The simplest life is too complex to have arisen by random natural events.

• Scientist Michael Denton says that even bacterial cells are more complex than anything created by man.

  • “Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world.”6