Did life only come into being at one point or is it still happening?

Question

Is there any evidence of life being created today. I do not mean from reproduction i mean...life spontaneousy happening?

Answer 1

All known life is descended from common ancestors.  It is certainly possible for new life to spring up but the problem is that new life would have to compete with life that has already evolved.  It probably wouldn't fare well in the competition.  It would be like pitting a college professor against a preschooler.

Answer 2

It could be spontaneously occurring from inanimate matter, at the very moment you are reading this, but it may not becoming visibly noticeable for another million years...

Life on earth is estimated to be 3.5-4.0 BILLION years old!

Answer 3

There's too much life heaving all around for it to be notice, if it happens much. They've got fairly close in the lab, but so far no joy.

Answer 4

The modern name for the alleged spontaneous creation of life is abiogenesis. Evolutionists still tell us that this must have happened despite Louis Pasteur (see below), and despite that modern experiments have demonstrated further the impossibility of life arising from non-life.

For example the Urey-Miller experiments  of the 50's show just this. Despite the bold claims that life haad been created in a test tube, the experiments show how impossible it is for life to arise spontaneously.

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view...

In 1857, Pasteur returned to the Ecole Normale. This time he was not a student, but was the Director of Scientific Studies. Here he continued his work on microbes.

The ancient Greeks had believed that small animals such as worms, mice, and maggots sprang to life automatically from the non-living matter around (such as rotting flour, a sweaty shirt, or decaying meat). This belief that living matter arose from non-living material is called spontaneous generation. The idea of maggots’ coming spontaneously to life out of decaying meat was successfully challenged in 1668 by Italian biologist Francesco Redi. When he covered the meat with gauze to prevent flies from laying their eggs on it, no maggots appeared in the meat. (The maggots are actually the larvae which hatch from flies’ eggs.)

Long after the idea of spontaneous generation of maggots, mice and worms had been generally discarded, scientists still clung to the idea of spontaneous generation of microscopic animals. To disprove this idea also, Pasteur boiled some broth to kill any microbes present. With special glassware, he allowed air to circulate over the broth, but prevented microbes in the air from reaching the broth. As Pasteur expected, no microbes appeared in the broth. Pasteur’s findings showed that microbes were not spontaneously generated from the broth itself. Microbes would only appear in the broth if they were allowed in with the air. He clearly showed that even for microbes, life came only from life—‘Microscopic beings must come into the world from parents similar to themselves.’2

Pasteur’s work should have dealt the death blow to the idea of spontaneous generation. But spontaneous generation is an essential part of the theory of evolution. Despite all the efforts of evolutionary scientists, not one observable case of spontaneous generation has ever been found. Pasteur’s findings conflicted with the idea of spontaneous generation (as do all scientific results since). Consequently, Louis Pasteur was a strong opponent of Darwin’s theory.

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view...

Answer 5

Yes, once.

All living things on Earth are, as far as we know, related.