One wrote:

Living can bring forth living. Non-living cannot bring forth living.

Another responded:

Why not? This will soon happen in a laboratory somewhere (many are working on it from many different angles).

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What is life? Although there is no concensus on the definition, it is usually assumed that it involves the ability to reproduce. It that is agreed, then God is not alive as he has not reproduced (although how you understand the Trinity may colour your view here, but I don't think once is enough anyway). If God is not a living being according to our current understanding, then how did life begin? Maybe God created it out of non-living material i.e. non-life became life. (Reflect on this statement and what it might reveal about the nature of God.)

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Evolution is the overwhelming consensus view of current biology. (As is the use of BCE rather than BC for those in NSW !). BTW, this has nothing whatever to do with religion.

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When there was no time, there was NO TIME. It did not exist, nor did space. All that existed was energy (perhaps), or was it just the vacuum? Creation was the creation of time and space from nothingness (non-existence) in the big bang. The void (in the biblical term) was just that, nothing, no before, no after, no up, no down, no across, nothing at all. Just the laws of physics, although some say that even they were created with our universe. You need to read and understand more modern science if you wish to criticise it constructively. I actually find modern cosmology to be amazingly congruent with Christian belief.

ps Note that creation continues. As the universe expands, both time and space are continually being created.

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