Two More of Bob Dutko's Proofs for God's Existence Refuted.

Bob Dutko's Third and Fourth Proof for God's Existence Debunked.

Three: The Origin of Life: Life Cannot Come from Non-Life

As to the origin of life, that's a transition - life from non-life - that is still unexplained. But something currently unexplained doesn't of necessity translate into forever and ever unexplained. The history of science is full of multi-thousands of events once unexplained that are now taught as fully explained to even elementary children.

Once upon a time it was established 'fact' that you couldn't generate organic compounds from inorganic compounds. Then urea was synthesized. Highly complex organic chemistry, chemistry part and parcel of the life processes, has now been routinely synthesized under what we believe were natural conditions. There is no biochemical or organic chemical contained within living systems whose chemical pathway cannot be traced back to the foundations and fundamentals of inorganic chemistry. Against all expectations, highly complex organic molecules have been discovered in interstellar space.

If you take the vast amount of real estate that the cosmos presents itself has having, coupled with those most abundant of elements in the cosmos, elements that just happen to form the backbone of life (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen), coupled with billions upon billions of years for reactions to happen in, coupled with the concept of panspermia, well I believe a natural explanation for the origin of life is way more a realistic explanation than a theological one. Just saying "God did it" is just too easy an answer, and an answer that in and of itself hasn't been demonstrated as established fact. That God created life is as much a theory or a hypothesis as is abiogenesis, only the latter is subject to scientific investigation / experimentation. The God hypothesis is not falsifiable.

We may not have THE answer to the origin of life in our lifetime, but perhaps in a 100 years, 1000 years, any school kid might be able to create life in a test-tube as part of their biology class. Once the answer is actually known, it will probably seem obvious.

Four: Alternatives to God and the Burden of Proof: Explaining Life, the Universe and Everything

Two points here. Firstly, there are thousands of other religions, theologies and deities that all manner of societies and cultures have envisioned as explaining life, the Universe and everything. Collectively, that's one heck of a lot of alternatives. God is actually quite a late-comer and so you'll find God towards the back of the explanatory line.

Further, science itself has done a marvelous job of coming to terms with explaining life, the Universe and everything especially considering how young the field of what we would term 'modern' science actually is. Now that's not to say there are not unknowns yet to be explained and competing ideas in some areas yet to be resolved, but then too Rome wasn't built in a day.

As to the burden of proof, the proof of any pudding lies with the person or agency or institution that claims something is so, as in God exists. There is no burden of proof on anyone claiming that something is not so. In fact it is impossible to prove the negative. So the burden of proof that God exists lies with Bob Dutko, and from his ten examples of 'proof' given here, he fails miserably.

To be continued...