Now to address Savagewind's concern, as best I can in a limited post. The others are correct in what they say about making a distinction between abiogenisis and the theory of evolution, as they are not one and the same. But to the point you are getting at underlying all of this is a question of if all that we see and experience, from the stars and the planets, the oceans and the animals that inhabit them and the land above, from the sea-sponge to you and me sitting here conversing over thousands of miles in our respective homes, that if all of this is 'only' a natural process, doesn't this mean God is unnecessary? Doesn't it boil down to that question for you, regardless of arguing and debating how the particular mechanics this process work?
First to look at evolution in the broad sense of the word. Evolution is simply a process that is responsible for change over time. When science speaks of the Theory of Evolution that is speaking of the process of evolution happening within biological organisms responsible for the diversity of animal species. But the fact of evolution, not the theory of evolution which is a model of speciation, but the fact of evolution, like the fact of wind, or the fact of air, or the fact of gravity; the fact of evolution is responsible for everything that self-organizes, from the stars and the planets to you and me. Evolution is just another word for development. You believe in development, surely?
As we develop, as things evolve, the add more and more to themselves. What defines development, or evolution, is this. It is a process of transcending and including what came before the new emergent state. It builds upon the previous level, to the new level. A 20 year old doesn't suddenly burst into existence, but rather moves through a process of development from an infant to an adult, from an acorn to an oak tree. Change, over time, transcending and including what came before it. In the case of you and me as humans, it looks roughly like this: from quarks and atoms, to molecules, to cells, to bodies, to mind, to soul, to spirit. Within me, within this collection of cells and molecules and atoms, I exist. I am star dust, living and breathing with lungs walking on a planet created our of the bits of exploded stars, gathered together through a process of evolution, shaped and molded into me, and into you who know sit talking to one another across the spaces.
Boy, if that doesn't speak of God, of that which comes into being out of nothing, I don't know what does!
This entire thing, every moment, every shift and change and rearrangement is creation. Everything, every thought, every molecule is constantly evolving into newer forms that sing the praises of this "Creator", that arises within us as we looking into the beauty of the vast and infinite Ocean of matter and mind and spirit.
Does this making believing a literal reading of the Bible in Genesis something to reject? Well, of course, but who on earth said it was meant to be read literally in the first place? The way you read things and understood the world when you were six years old, is it the same as you do now as an adult? Of course not, you've added too much awareness to your evolving, developing self. It doesn't mean you reject God. It means you grow your beliefs up. That's all.
The how of how life came up out of matter in what is called abiogensis, is simply a matter of trying to map out how that process of change occured/occurs. But that is irrelevant to the question of God. God is the Ground of Being, from which all these processes emerge and run their course creating everything that is, as it reaches towards that Source on its path across the cosmos, in it constant movements of being and becoming.
Process that for awhile before responding.
