Thunder, you seem hung up on the origins of life but have not really said what life is or what unfailing test can be applied to tell when life starts or ends.
Generally accepted definitions can be found easily. This is the least difficult issue facing OOL research.
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Knowing when and how life began on Earth is not necessary to understand how life behaves.
This is true.
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Just because we will never know exactly how it started, ... , does not make the evolutionary theories invalid or useless.
This is true also, but the OOL question is still a deeply profound and disturbing question. It is a thorn in the side of Darwinists. It is pushed aside as it has been in this thread by just saying it does not have anything to do with Darwinian evolution.
