Here's the latest on where materialist theories stand on abiogenesis or the origin of life from non-living matter. To this day, it remains an unsubstantiated Darwinist dogma that a combination of environmental factors and random chemical reactions, ignited by the sun's radiation and cooked in the early Earth's hot oceans or near undersea volcanoes about 3.5 billion years ago, spontaneously, without a designer's intervention, created and preserved (and I stress "preserved") simple self-replicating DNA or RNA fragments or a complex and intricate information processing digital system of nucleic acids and proteins enclosed in a protective membrane, characteristic feature of even the "simplest" prokaryotic cell known today. A designer's intervention is absolutely required, and materialist Darwinist theories are entirely in the dark on this, perhaps, most intriguing human question to this very day despite the Darwinist's persistent, dogmatic claim to the contrary.