Darwin's Warm Pond Theory Tested

On of the things that has always caused me to be skeptical of the Darwinian view of the origin of life is its inablility to explain how basic cellular building blocks came together in the first place. A cell cannot function without a very specific combination of amino acids, which at the start, requires the blue-prints found only in DNA. DNA does not exist in the wild, but amino acids do. What Darwin, and his followers, suggested is that life began when the raw chemicals of life found themselves in a "warm little pond" somewhere in the world a very long time ago. This theory is now being tested.

Unfortunately, the results do not bear out Darwin's theory. For nearly 100 years now, volcanic clays were thought to be the perfect place for the origin of life. But it turns out that surface of clays in warm to hot water do not polymerize sufficiently to cause organic molecules to form. In fact, according to resent research, clay binds to the organic compounds in such a way that no further growth can be measured.

I'm not about to suggest HOW God did it, but it's clear to me that the only way to get life in the first place is through some miraculous process. The origin of life, from a purely physical, scientific view is completely paradoxical. So, according to the article in question, we are required to push the origin of life back into outer space. Which only defers the question to speculation, unless one is comfortable with the idea of an all-powerful Creator. Next thing we know, we'll just skip Christmas and celebrate Darwin's birthday . . . oh wait, we are!