The Where Did the First Life Come from Theory

The question of how or where the first life appeared on earth is weaponized by religious people around the world. In the U.S. Christianity most often weaponizes this question. I saw a piece recently which claimed "Christianity is growing because atheists cannot explain where the first life came from. It proves the Bible is right that God created life. " It is not true that "Christianity is growing." It is true that up until recently there has not been a clear or agreed upon explanation as to how what we think of as life was created in the universe.

Richard Dawkins, a scientists and atheist author, has said repeatedly we will have an explanation about how the first life formed sooner than most people expect. A theory about how the first life may have come to be has now appeared in academic literature. An interesting side note is that amino acids have been found on debris from other planets.

Since all the elements needed for life were present before life appeared, the question has always been what triggered the alignment of these basic components to produce some form of life followed by plant and animal life? Lightening, with its heat and electricity has been proposed as the force which created something new. The link explanation was headed by a physicist who saw the forces of physics as drivers of changes that produced life. I will not try to paraphrase her explanation. There are scientists who both agreed and disagree with her theory. The encouraging part of her theory, she says, is that is can be test in laboratory settings. 

The logic of evolution went through these stages also. Once the theory was in place, it was possible to observe plants and animals to test the theory. Evolution remains the most powerful explanation of adaptation by living things to the changes that threaten them.