Posted: Apr 16, 2012 9:57 am
We don't know, and when we're speaking of Abiogenesis here on earth, the way it actually happened, we may never know with any great deal of certainty. The best we can do is suggest ways in which it could have happened, and try to demonstrate how by performing experiments and correlate them with what we know about conditions that were extant on the early earth.
I have to ask you, though, rainbow, what the point is with that question? Because given the innumerable times we've been over this subject, you must know this by now. So I'm a bit puzzled why you keep returning with the same question? If you wish to imply that, since we don't know in any detail how it happened, that we can't say for certain that it happened, I can demonstrate the fallacy of that silly piece of logic with a bit of mathematics. Here's how:
I don't know what the square root of 35 is(how life began), but I know 35 has a square root(that it began), and I know it's not 5(goddidit).
QED.
Have a nice day.