Well, it's for certain that you don't base that belief on what abiogenetic research actually shows us.
I think that near death experiencer Mellen Benedict would agree! http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html#a05
You do understand that Pasteur demonstrated no such thing, right? And you confuse this with Pasteur? Ever heard of Jack Szostak? Apparently not. Here;s a good introduction: http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/evolution-ecology/jack-szostak-part-1.html
If the multiverse hypothesis is true, what are the implications for theists and atheists? 1) Regarding the fine-tuning argument for God & the Multiverse: "There is a final response, known as the multiverse hypothesis. The multiverse hypothesis claims that there are many other universes in addition to our own. Each of these has different properties, and different values of the basic constants of physics. If the number of these universes is extremely large, it would be less surprising that one of them would happen to provide the specific conditions for life. At first glance, the proposition of many other universes sounds impressively scientific. However, one must keep in mind that the likelihood of ever being able to observe evidence of another universe is extremely remote, since it is unlikely that information could ever pass from one universe to another. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the process which produces all of these universes would randomly set all the physical parameters in such a way that every possibility is realized. It could be that there are constraints on the characteristics of these many universes and that the production process itself would have to be fine-tuned in some way to guarantee that we get enough variety of universes to account for our remarkable cosmic home." LINK 2) What caused the multiverse to come into being? [video=youtube;WQXmLI6VAwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQXmLI6VAwc[/video] I like this statement: "Newton's laws describe what will happen, they don't cause motion." Another article by Lennox: As a scientist I'm certain Stephen Hawking is wrong. You can't explain the universe without God And check out this article: Why physicists can't avoid a creation event 3) If the multiverse exists you could be a theist or a polytheist, but you couldn't be an atheist. Princeton philosopher David K. Lewis has pointed out that a multiverse means "all logically possible universes are as real as the one we call the "actual" one." And "there is even a universe containing the Greek gods". LINK
Before there was no life...then there is life...so obviously life can be created from non-living matter... - - - Updated - - - I place zero validity in so-called near-death experiences...
So..... how could fundamental energy manage to NOT evolve into more and more complex forms...... previous to the most recent major Big Bang event of perhaps 14 billion or so years ago? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Complexity/Consciousness
