How do you know there hasn't? We've not noticed it happening anywhere but the scope and ability of our observations are massively limited, especially in the context of the whole Universe.
The whole universe is out of question, we're limited to the observed universe. If abiogenesis happened on this very planet how is it that we cannot find any example in nature that can recreate the events to cause it? Maybe not observe another arising of life forms or animation from inanimate objects, but situations that would cause it at least.
We've come across nothing that suggests living organisms were built from a series of nonliving things, or even that they can be.
Assuming it is true, it's also likely to be an extremely rare event and so the chance of it happening twice on the same planet within the cosmologically short period between its first happening on Earth and today is very, very low. It's like someone on your street winning the lottery jackpot last year and you being surprised nobody else on your street has won it since.
I'm glad you're aware of how rare this must be. And it just so happens that one lucky strike of the match caused one planet to be packed full of life surrounded by stillborn planets without a single hint of life (exception of Mars being possible to have contained life).
coincidental, no. It's perfectly plausible for conscious life to generate independently. Of course it's possible for there to be/have been some form of intelligent creator too, though that does lead inevitably to the question of where that consciousness came from. It really just pointlessly shifts the problem back one step.
I never said it was impossible, but there is so much coincidence that I see it unreasonable to suggest it was independently generated. Of course there's always that one percent, slim chance. There's no evidence to prove it wasn't a coincidence, that God made life here, that's true. But to say it is a coincidence just doesn't feel right in the mouth for me. All of those factors that added up to make you and I sit here, two separate consciousnesses within a very complex universe, conversing on whether or not we are here for a reason, all of those factors are very coincidental. Of course life can arise from non-life, after countless generations we have very intelligent primates that develop communication, language, culture, and begin to question the world around us. Through thousands of years of trial and error, cause and effect, action and reaction, we made a final leap to quantum mechanics, computers, and internet to where I can communicate with you from any part of the world and still we ask if this is all just a coincidence. It seems unlikely to me, but then again it just
seems that way.
And at the very beginning we did come from nothing. Something did had to have come from nothing, because something coming from something would defeat the purpose of the question. There was a time before time where time did not exist, where non-existence ceased to exist until potential energy created the universe. I agree with you. At some point there was a point where 0 became 1, where the meaning to life was meaninglessly created.
