It seems to me the "life from non-life" objection to the theory of evolution is not sound at all, because it assumes that "life" is something more than chemical substances behaving in relation to one another in complex ways--but that begs the question.
It seems perfectly possible to me that a bunch of non-living things would get together and naturally behave in certain ways in relation to one another in such a way that it is now considered "life"--because all it takes for something to be considered life, it seems, is that it multiply somehow, produce waste, take in nutrients, or whatever else.
I suppose that's what life amounts to in an atheistic universe; the living thing is just a complex system of interacting parts, and nothing more; and it seems perfectly plausible to me that some of those parts might meet each other, interact, and grow, etc.
Plus the assumption that a living thing cannot come from non-living things commits the fallacy of composition: that because the parts are non-living, the whole cannot be considered living, but that clearly doesn't fly.


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