{"id":43907,"date":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/scientists-admit-ignorance-about-origin-of-life\/"},"modified":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"scientists-admit-ignorance-about-origin-of-life","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/scientists-admit-ignorance-about-origin-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Admit Ignorance About the Origin of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?item_no=479120&amp;p=1022189\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><em class=\"citation\">God&#39;s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God<\/em><\/a>, John Lennox quotes a number of scientists who admit their ignorance about the origin of life:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\t<li>One of the most eminent scientists working on the origin of life, Leslie Orgel, summed up the position as follows: &quot;There are several tenable theories about the origin of organic material on the primitive earth, but in no case is the supporting evidence compelling.&quot;<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Orgel echoes the view Klaus Dose, also a prominent scientist working on origin-of-life issues, who stated, &quot;At present all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance.&quot;<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Francis Crick, not known to be sympathetic to the miraculous, nevertheless wrote, &quot;The origin of life seems almost to be a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.&quot;<\/li>\n\n\t<li>Stuart Kauffman from the Santa Fe Institute claims, &quot;Anyone who tells you that he or she knows how life started on the earth some 3.45 billion years ago is a fool or a knave. 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