What about abiogenesis?
Firstly, abiogenesis is not covered under the evolution theory, which covers progression of living organisms
Secondly, a gap in knowledge should only spur more research, not us giving up and raising our hands to some Leprechaun in the sky.
Thirdly, What gap of knowledge are you referring to? We successfully created living matter from inanimate matter in a lab. It is done. We created living matter in 1953.
Fourth, It only took a week for the guys in white coats to create amino-acids in a vat,
Fifth: Since then, thousands of lab technicians built amino-acids just for the chance to get to play god for few days.
Here is what the men in white said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment"At the end of one week of continuous operation, Miller and Urey observed that as much as 10?15% of the carbon within the system was now in the form of organic compounds. Two percent of the carbon had formed amino acids that are used to make proteins in living cells, with glycine as the most abundant. Sugars, lipids, and some of the building blocks for nucleic acids were also formed.
In an interview, Stanley Miller stated: "Just turning on the spark in a basic pre-biotic experiment will yield 11 out of 20 amino acids."[8]
The only contention is whether life was created on earth or whether it was brought on by meteors. The contention is not whether abiogenesis is possible or not. Abiogensis had been demonstrated for 60 years now. So go chill and have a glass of wine, nothing will happen to you.
Now Shadow, whoever fed you the story about abiogenesis, you have a duty to go back, investigate who wrote it, and reduce the reliability and credibility of everything else they sourced for you.