Yes.
And this time please answer it.
(1) the ORIGIN OF LIFE (i.e. THE EVENTS that first gave rise to the remarkable cooperative functioning of nucleic acids and proteins)
How did acids & proteins come into being ? YOU use "after the fact" explanations to describe complex, interlocking biological systems. But, your saying it's (Darwin's) Evolution Theory of Natural Selection that "put's" it all together, YET you still avoid the How life Began Question ? Those acids & proteins just didn't appear out of Nowhere?
Well, what are the options? Really only two. It all depends on your premises and presuppositions. Everything comes down to one of two alternatives, summed up like this:
"In the beginning, GOD CREATED the heavens and the earth," (Genesis 1:1) and, "By FAITH we understand that worlds were framed by the Word of God so that which is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible." (Heb. 11:3, Weymouth Translation)
AND,
Once upon a time, perhaps two and a half billion years ago, under a deadly sun, in an ammoniated ocean topped by a poisonous atmosphere in the midst of a soup of organic molecules, a nucleic acid molecule came ACCIDENTALLY INTO BEING that could SOMEHOW BRING ABOUT the existence of another like itself.
Two choices. Pick the first, and you see all natural history as divinely guided towards Man's coming; with it the conviction that man has special destiny and moral responsibility (with a probable judgment on the horizon as well). Pick the second, and you are left with no God, Heaven, Hell, or for that matter, any confidence in humanity and its future. The choice is really quite narrow. Of course both sides have their creeds, authorities, and prophets, and both in the final analysis are religious - are matter of faith. The only question is, which one has the "facts" going for it?
By Design-("A man consists of some seven octillion (7X10 to the 27th) atoms grouped in about 10 trillion cells (10 to the 13th). This agglomeration of cells and atoms has some astounding properties. It is alive, feels joy and suffering, discriminates between beauty and ugliness, and distinguishes between good and evil.")(Genetics of the Evolutionary Process -Theodosius Dobzhansky)
Man IS marvelously complex, and complexity shows one of TWO THINGS: incredible luck or intricate engineering.
The seven system-command computers on the Columbia space shuttle (cross-checking each others' fact and figures, and voting on the result) didn't mutate from some engineer's lost four-function calculator; yet Man's design leaves the computers' far behind!
It still all comes back to Structure, design, order. Demonstrated Billions of times, always the same order of only "some", not all amino acids and the order of "some" protein's, locking together to form the very beginnings of life. NOTHING left to chance, nothing out of order, ABSOLUTELY nothing Random, haphazard, aimless. No best-of-luck.
Yet, Evolution Somehow "just happened" without rhyme nor reason. And it progressed- unaided & without direction?
THANK GOD, IT'S JUST A THEORY.....
You said: "
what are the options? Really only two." and then go one state, as one, "
In the beginning, GOD CREATED the heavens and the earth," (Genesis 1:1)" You only include the Jewish creation myth as an alternative to a scientific explanation. Please show your scientific reason for eliminating from consideration all of the hundreds, or thousands, of other creation myths from around the world. I assume you include the Genesis tale for a scientifically valid reason, and not simply because you want to believe it, correct?