God takes credit for life?

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God takes credit for life?

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Studying the graphite, the researchers found evidence that it was biogenic, meaning it was produced by life.
QED.

Chemistry of Life

So we have life on an Earth hundreds of billions of years before God created it.
Doesn't it seem more like God showed up at the dawn of civilization and tried to take credit for the invention? since life was there long before the Bible does more than suggest God was even in existence.

(It can't be shown definitively that God existed any time before Genesis, assumptions being caste aside.)

How does one resolve the paradox? Is God just a show-stealer, or did man just write in their God with unbelievable hubris?

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Willum wrote: (It can't be shown definitively that God existed any time before Genesis, assumptions being caste aside.)
Seeing since you posted this in "Science and Religion" I feel a need to point out that the Bible is hardly the only religious paradigm.

You seem to be handing the Abrahamic theists the patent rights for having the only paradigm of God on a silver platter.

There are many religions that do not claim that God created the earth in 7 days about 6,000 years ago. Nor do they have anything to say at all about how or when God created the universe, or life.
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We've been getting some really fun information lately about what kind of chemical reactions were possible in a prebiotic environment. I'm certainly willing to wait a while and see what else we can dig up.

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