Phillip E. Johnson

Strictly speaking, Darwin's theory does not attempt to explain how life began. It only attempts to explain how complex life—forms might have developed from simple forms. However, Darwinists generally believe that the earliest forms of life might have been so simple that life might have begun by sheer accident. Creationists argue that even the simplest forms of life are so complicated that they could not have started by accident. The origin of even the simplest forms of life would require an act of creation.

In the following passage Phillip E. Johnson reviews current theories for the origin of life and concludes that all the theories so far proposed are wildly speculative and implausible. Johnson has taught law at the University of California at Berkeley for over twenty years. He served as a law...