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• Evolution is baseless without a theory of abiogenesis Response to Talk.Origins
• Abiogenesis experiments produce toxins such as cyanide and formaldehyde Response to Talk.Origins
• Abiogenesis is speculative, without evidence Response to Talk.Origins

Creation Perspectives on Abiogenesis (External links)

• A Biochemical View of Life by Jerry Albert. Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 29. (June 1977): 76 - 84.

• Abiogenesis and the Origin of Life by Chris Ashcraft
• Abiogenesis - Stanley L Miller's 1953 experiment
• Abiogenic Origin of Life: A Theory in Crisis by Arthur V. Chadwick, Ph.D.
• Abiogenesis: The Skeptics View by Texans for Better Science Education
• Abiogenesis Update Quotes and References by Laurence D Smart
• Biogenesis and Abiogenesis by the Catholic Encyclopedia
• Biogenesis is Impossible by Natural Means by Bill Donahue
• Can Life Arise from Non LIfe? by Joseph Mastropaolo and Karl Priest
• Cell Membrane-Like Organic Vesicles Formed in Conditions Mimicking Interstellar Clouds? by GodandScience.org
• Chemical Composition of the Earth's Original Atmosphere by John C. Walton
• Chirality; Still a Problem for Origin of Life
• Could Life Just Happen? by Ron Lyttle
• Did God Create Life? Ask a Protein by Thomas F. Heinze
• Did Life Begin in an RNA World? by L. J. Gibson  Origins 20(1):45-52 (1993).
• Did Life Start When Amino Acids Made Proteins? by Thomas F. Heinze
• DNA and the Origin of Life PDF by Stephen C. Meyer
• DNA, Design, and the Origin of Life Charles B. Thaxton, Ph.D. paper presented at, Jesus Christ: God and Man, an international conference in Dallas, Texas, November 13-16, 1986.
• How Did Life Begin? Return to God Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, page 4
• How Did Life Begin? by Doug Horchak
• Hydrothermal Origin of Life? by Jonathan Sarfati. Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 13(2):5–6, 1999
• Is the Chemical Origin of Life a Realistic Scenario?- a list of the "science of the gaps" beliefs of those who reject a Creator God.
• Life: An Evidence for Creation by George T. Javor Origins 25(1):2-48
• Life from life...or not? by by David Demick Creation ex nihilo 23(1):36–4. December 2000
• Life - God's Creation, or Abiogenesis by Curt Sewell. Creation Bits No.13
• Loopholes in the evolutionary theory of the origin of life by Jonathan Sarfati
• Mathematical Philosophy and Evolution Robert A. Herrmann Ph. D.
• Organization and the Origin of Life by John C. Walton. Origins 4(1):16-35 (1977).
• Origin of Life: A Look at Late 20th-Century Thinking by George T. Javor. Origins 14(1):7-20 (1987).
• Origin of life and the chirality problem: Is magnetochiral dichroism the solution? by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 14(3):9–12, 2000
• Origin of Life: Critique of Early Stage Chemical Evolution Theories by Duane Gish ICR Impact. No 31
• Origin of Life: Instability of Building Blocks by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 13(2):124-127, 1999
• Origin of life: latest theories/problems - a discussion of the problems inherent in the RNA World hypothesis.
• Origin of Life Q&A by Answers in Genesis
• Origin of Life References -ChristianAnswers.Net
• Origin of Life Research Projects at the Earth History Research Center
• Origin of Life: the Polymerization Problem by Jonathan Sarfati. TJ 12(3):281–284. December 1998
• Origin of Life: The Theory of Surface Metabolism by George T. Javor. Origins 16(1):40-44 (1989).
• Origin of Life: The Fox Thermal Model of the Origin of Life by Duane T. Gish, Ph.D. ICR Impact No. 33
• Origin of the Life Questions - Creation SuperLibrary
• Origin of life: the Chirality Problem by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 12(3):281–284, 1998
• Origin of life: the polymerization problem by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 12(3):281–284, 1998
• Oxygen - The Deathblow to Life? by John Ankerberg, Steve Austin, Duane Gish, Kurt Wise

• Primordial Soup Anyone? by Cathy Bakken. Reasons to Believe - Seattle Chapter. News and Views. October 2003.

• Probabilities of randomly assembling a primitive cell on Earth by Dermott J. Mullan. PCID Volume 1.4. October-December 2002.

• Quantum leap of faith Paul Davies and the origin of life Alexander Williams. Creation ex nihilo 22(2):42–43. March 2000
• Rare 'Primitive Bugs' -- Neither Primitive Nor Rare by Carl Wieland, Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 9(1):4, 1995
• RNA World: A Critique by Kenyon and Mills. Origins & Design 17:1
• Sea Vents Closed as Life-Origin Site by Fazale R. Rana PhD. Connections 2002 - Volume 4, Number 2
• Self-replicating Enzymes? A critique of some current evolutionary origin-of-life models by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 11(1):4–6, 1997
• Serious Difficulties for Abiogenesis by Steve Hinrichs
• Simple cells by Dr Luke Randall (C. Biol., M.I. Biol. M.Sc., Ph.D)
• The First Atmosphere by Andrew Snelling. Creation 3(4):46–52. November 1980
• The Impasse of Molecular Evolution by Harun Yahya. Evolution Deceit. Chapter 11
• The Improbability of Abiogenesis by David Plaisted
• The Improbability of Abiogenesis Spontaneous Generation Redux by R. Totten
• The Mystery of Life's Origin - Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, and Roger L. Olsen.
• The Myth of Chemical Evolution by David Rosevear. ICR Impact 313. July 1999.
• The Origin of Information By Mark Eastman, M.D. and Chuck Missler
• The Origin of Life by David Menton Ph.D.
• The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism by Stephen C. Meyer. The Intercollegiate Review 31, no. 2. April 1, 1996
• The Origin of Life and Suppression of Truth by Eastman and Missler
• The Origin of Life on Planet Earth by Jim Schicatano
• The Origin of Life Prize consists of $1.35 Million (USD) paid directly to the winner(s) for proposing a highly plausible mechanism for the spontaneous rise of genetic instructions in nature sufficient to give rise to life.
• The Primitive Atmosphere by D. Denner Creation Ex Nihilo 3(3):23-27
• Why Abiogenesis Is Impossible by Jerry Bergman Ph.D. Creation Research Society Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, March 2000

• Why the Miller–Urey research argues against abiogenesis. by Jerry Bergman. Journal of Creation 18(2):28–36
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Secular Resources on Abiogenesis

• Abiogenesis The First Frontier
• Astrochemistry's Links
• Probability of Abiogenesis FAQs by the Talk.Origins Archive
• Evolution -- Abiogenesis -- Origin of Life

Origin of Life News

• Did Life Come from Another World? New research indicates that microorganisms could have survived a journey from Mars to Earth. Scientific American Nov 2005.
• Allan Hills Meteorite Abiogenic? The debate over whether a meteorite contains evidence of past life on Mars continues to intensify. The paper reports that a mineral found in Martian meteorite, was likely caused by inorganic processes SpaceDaily 6/22/04
• Exobiology: It's life...isn't it? Scientists find it hard enough to pin down evidence of early life on our own planet. How on Earth do we plan to determine whether life exists elsewhere? Nature 7/15/04
• It's life, but not as God planned it 4/1/04
• How did life begin? The Age 1/2/04
• How Did Life Begin? NYTimes 11/11/03
• Expanding The Genetic Code: The World's First Artificial Organism Jan 14, 2003
• Top 10 Space Mysteries for 2003 - The origin of life Yahoo News 12/27/02
• Revolutionary New Theory For Origins Of Life On Earth Science Daily News 12/4/2002
• Did life begin in a bubble University of Plymouth 3/16/02
• 'Cells' hint at life's origin BBC News SCI-TECH 1/29/01
• How did life begin - Biochemical evolution on mineral surfaces University of Chicago News 3/31/98