The origin of life is an issue that has made scientists investigate and promote theories that might shed light on such an important issue. While there are many views and controversies surrouding this point, the main answers can be put on two categories:
Dr Michael Denton M.D., Ph.D. is a molecular biologist at the University of Otago, New Zealand who gained popularity due to his book "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis". In the book Dr Denton lists a number of scientific evidence that does not work in favor of the darwinian model of evolution (ex: avian lung). While his scientific background seems unpeacheable, his knowledge of Christian theology seems lacking, as we shall see in the following lines.
In the interview he gave under the title "On Darwinism" (listed here) Dr Denton said:
"(...)The Theory of special creation involves the direct intervention of God. This would necessitate throw out the basic goal of science, which is to demonstrate a natural explination by natural laws responsible for the phenomena in the world around us.(...) Creation implies the breaking of a law and its completely foreign to the ideia of science are ever intervened by God or anything else. (...) There is something intelectualy insatisfactory that God has to intervene in the history of the world to change His Laws to bring forth life. (...) Why did He ever brake the laws to get life? (...) Most scientists who are religious feel "Surelly God doesn't have to brake His Own Laws to create life" (...)"The sentence we must have in mind during the following article is "Surelly God doesn't have to brake His Own Laws". Let us ponder briefly on the nature of miracles.
According to the Word of God, divine miracles are the direct intervention of God for a specific task, or with a specific goal. All miracles God made were specific, and were never done without a purpose or with the wrong purpose in mind. (In fact, when the Lord Jesus was asked to bring down fire from heaven as a evidence for His claims 1, the Lord rejected such a challange since such a miracle would not produce the desired effects.)
If we notice carefully the miracles God did in Scripture we notice that all of them helped mankind for a greater or a temporary good. One can say that such a miracle served not only for the time when it happened, but for future generations, but primarly it served for a local good, and with a purposeful aim. This intervention in the natural world has led people to ask: if God is so Powerful, why does he have to breake His own Natural Laws?
I think that this question is wrongly postulated. A more realistic question would be "Why does God have to reverse temporarly some of His Natural Laws? Couldn't He have made a world where Natural Laws would work perfectly?" The thing that should come to our mind is that God does miracles because the world is not the way He made it. If the world had been the way He created, there would be no need for miracles
When God does a miracle He is temporary reversing a natural that, if let to itself, would be harmful to us. Now, there is no need to think that a God Who stops natural laws periodically is not Powerful or Good. He has to stop those laws periodically BECAUSE we destroyed the "Very Good" world He made. In other words, when God stops a natural law for a moment, He is not being Weak, but Being loving.
Take for example the events in Mark 2:1-12 where the Lord Jesus heals a paralytic. Natural Law says that such people are more than likely doomed to stay like that as long as they exist in the human body. However, the Lord Jesus reversed the laws of decay and healed the man. Now, if we were living in the "Very Good" world that God made, there would be no deformities or sickness since those things are the result of our sin.
The issue here is that some people think that when God stops a natural law He is not being Consistent. They argue that, since God created those natural laws, then those laws should explain everything. The problem is that they assume that we are living in the *same* world God made (without sin and death), but we are not. We are living in a world destroyed by our sin. The Natural Laws now are not reversed to prevent deterioration. People die; organisms are born with genetic defect, etc...
Having in mind such a world, we don't need to look down on God's intervention in this cursed world. On the contrary, we should thank Him and praise Him daily, since, even though our sin destroyed the "Very Good" universe He made, He did not stop looking after us. For the good of mankind, God can intervene in this world to, temporarly, stop or turn back some of His natural Laws.
The conclusion is that God periodicaly stopping a natural law is a sign of Love, not a sign of "loosing His control".