Following the science

 The actual science, not the dreck taught to us when we were kids in publik skool.

Throughout the late 1970s, Thaxton gave guest lectures at universities around the country in which he questioned the productivity of the current origin-of-life research program, including its variations on the theme of Darwin’s “warm little pond.” For example, he pointed out that only with significant intervention by the investigator could any of the experimentally replicated, hypothetical early-Earth environments actually yield biologically relevant molecules. Without intervention, interfering cross-reactions would prevent the desired molecules from forming. The prebiotic soup simply would not have been friendly to the evolution of life through abiogenesis.

You can't get something from nothing.

"Oh, but the Big Bang was the something!  All that energy!  Kaboom!"

Right.  And what was the cause of the big bang?  Where did all that matter come from?  What lit the fuse?  You can talk physics and quantum whatnot until you're blue in the face, but nobody can answer that basic question.  Where did it come from?  Because you cannot get something from nothing.

But you can't say "God" in publik skool these days.