Can non-living matter spontaneously become living, given enough time? (I'm not trying to be argumentative--I really don't know. Has it been done in a lab?)

paulh
Well evolotionists certainly believe so. Amino Acids are the building blocks of proteins and these are certainly easy to make in the Lab.

Graeme
Well, he was asking about what scientists had done, not about what they believed they might do someday.

And no, even under intelligent supervision, we've never witnessed life coming from non-life (much less all by itself). Spontaneous generation has been in disrepute for some time now.