How did life begin?

No, energy came first. Without it, no life. 

What do you THINK energy is?  What do you think it does?  It causes waves.  It causes sound.

Thank you for your answer Sharonna.

Don't think so but if that's what you want to surmise. 
I really expected to get a specific and clear answer from someone of your superior intellect and self described reasonableness as you and your posse seem to like to infer that anyone that doesn't agree with you as less reasonable.

Which scientist do you agree with, one from the links I provided or someone else?

I don't have superior intellect;  just awesome. 

I'll get back to you later -I gotta do some thimking,  see if there's anything new comes to mind.

Now that you've accused JW's of being liars in another thread I understand about your Discovery Institute remark. The Bibliography at the end shows where the quotes are from:
Bibliography:
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First things first I did not accuse JWs of being liars; you are not being honest. 
I said I have never known JWS to be liars.

Sure looks that way to me in your #6 and #8 comments?

http://answermug.com/forums/topic/19198/does-the-bible-teach-how-to-find-god/view/page/1
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That's a complete quote from somewhere;  I can't make just part of a quote. My emphasis would be 'the whole truth ' for you.

Sorry Tom but science figured that one out years ago, it lives, it reproduces, it is testable and has been repeated in laboratories throughout the world, throw a couple of billion years into the recipe and job done.

Nice try, Cedar, but science can say nothing about to say about the supernatural---If there is a beginning, there must be an uncaused cause.

There is no such thing as the supernatural, that is why science has nothing to say about it and the question was how did life begin. Looks to me like an 'uncaused cause' rules out any sky fairy.

Thank you for your humble answer TomThumb. Your comment reminds me of another link: http://answermug.com/forums/topic/16993/according-to-the-bible-who-really-controls-the-world

Well thank you for your answer. 

Nice answer, thank you very much. The article says similar:
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102010343?q=%22how+did+life+begin%22&p=par

Don't know if I had the option to mark as asker's pick when you first answered, but I do now so here ya go. This post was edited by texasescimo at July 16, 2017 10:01 AM MDT