The Stairway to Life

An Origin-of-Life Reality Check

By: Change Laura Tan, Rob Stadler

Narrated by: Fred Hoff

Spontaneous generation of living organisms - life arising without progenitor or seed - was a common belief in the time of Aristotle. Over the next 2,000 years, support for spontaneous generation slowly retreated to its final stronghold: spontaneous formation of the first living organism.

From recently acquired insights into the complexity of the simplest organisms, Tan and Stadler specify requirements for spontaneous formation of life and evaluate the prospects for natural processes to satisfy these requirements. The Stairway to Life is a thought-provoking inquiry that breaches the final stronghold of spontaneous generation.

©2020 Rob Stadler (P)2021 Rob Stadler

Excellent Book!

I plan to listen to this book again and I may even buy the paper copy. I would like to walk back through each chapter and educate myself on the science as I go. Admittedly, much of the information was new to me and I did not understand everything. Still, the scientific evidence presented is insurmountable. I knew enough to get that point from the book. It is a shame that smart people have completely closed their eyes to the absolute impossibility of abiogenesis. There is no harm in admitting that we did not spring from a cosmic mud puddle. We are smarter than that… might it be that we owe our origin to an intelligent designer? Even the rebound atheist, Antony Flew was willing to admit that.

The claim life had a natural origin is effectively debunked

How good and clear the narration. The step by step reasons prebiological chemistry is inadequate to explain life emerging from non living matter.

Amazing

I love the scientific integrity and devotion to revealing the building blocks of life. It was refreshing to hear the ground truth of what would truly be needed for abiogenesis to happen, if it were to happen naturalistically.

I had no idea how much was going on in one cell

I found the book very interesting, worth the time I spent listening. I would recommend.
One of the last chapters sounds like it needs some editing though. I hope more people will take a listen. The universe is insanely complex and so is life.
And this will help you appreciate it a little more.

true science

science vs. fiction masquerade as science. highly recommended.
the authors list 12 indispensable steps the non-life world has to ascend to become life. they demonstrate intelligent help is needed every step of the way.