HI Gerald.

Good piece. Obviously you are discussing all this from the point of view of science. From my perspective, the abiogenesis question is a non-starter because the whole universe is a living organism, therefore life never did emerge from inorganic matter in the first place. There is no such thing as inorganic matter; that is merely one of the illusions that scientific materialism has fallen prey to.

Following our two recent significant differences of opinion over the resurrection of Jesus and the Big Bang, I have only one minor quibble this time. You say that we now know that alchemy is impossible, and this because of our improved scientific knowledge.

It seems to me that again you are appealing to materialistic science when it suits your argument, when the whole point of your series is to argue against it. From a spiritual perspective, however, alchemy might be possible, although admittedly difficult. Did you catch my recent articles on Isaac Newton and [a series on] alchemy? If you would like to pursue such ideas further, you might find some of the material there interesting.