For the benefit of newcomers, George has defined abiogenesis as "first appearance of life in a lifeless universe", and says "there is every evidence that abiogenesis happened and therefore must have been able to happen". - Just in case any newcomers might (quite rightly) be thinking that they themselves constitute evidence that life began, here is a dictionary definition of abiogenesis: "the hypothesis that life can come into being from non-living materials". Despite decades of research by many eminent scientists, this hypothesis remains unproven.