Note carefully: I agree that many of these are good questions. I have no problem with good questions: and my kids have many. The problem I have is somebody refusing to accept a reasonable answer due to one’s presuppositions.

I should note that I do take the Bible as literally true, and honestly that does lead to a [very] few head-scratching situations; but compared to the massive problems I see with being an atheist and what drives people to atheism they are minimal. (I say this as somebody who considered himself an atheist, or at the least an agnostic, for a few years.)

To read more on abiogenesis, check this link. The folks at Harvard are hard at work on the big questions.

Thanks for taking the time and replying, I’m a bit of a noob on the forums and it’s not like I’m going to take the time to go through all the stuff posted in the past.

I know, Wikipedia is worth the paper it is printed on
but Wikipedia is not printed, it is online

Thank you Captain Obvious!

Thanks for clarifying Mike C that does make more sense. I heard that Peter wrote part of Acts of the Apostles as well?

I hadn’t heard that, though early church writers said that Mark’s gospel was based primarily on transcriptions of Peter’s sermons since Mark was a disciple of Peter’s.

Keep in mind that this is a primarily oral culture and the early disciples may have seen no need to write everything down. Why bother when you could just as easily remember it in your head and pass the story along by word of mouth?

Of course, anthropologists now say that it is unlikely that oral tradition really preserved anything entirely properly. I know, Wikipedia is worth the paper it is printed on, but I used to live with a cultural anthro major, so I will have to ask her for some better sources. Not that I think anyone knew about this modern day research in 65 CE.