[xzins]

:>)

How's it goin' today, Thatch?

Even that one doesn't qualify depending on how you wrap your mind around it.

[Thatcherite]

How's it goin' today, Thatch?

Not brilliant, as you asked. Aged relative problems. :( But I try to keep smiling and get my spirits back up by giving illogic and the rejection of observed reality a good kicking on FR. :)

Even that one doesn't qualify depending on how you wrap your mind around it.

OK. I get the following possibilities.

• God created life on earth at least once
• Life on earth occurred naturally at least once
• Life on earth has always been there, back through eternity (not a great deal of comfort to the Christian theological viewpoint, and counter to observations)
• Life is imaginary. We are all dreams in a supercomputer (not a great deal of comfort to the Christian theological viewpoint, and indistinguishable from the other options from our point of view)
• Life on earth drifted here from somewhere else (not a great deal of comfort to the Christian theological viewpoint, and only moves the life-from-life problem elsewhere)

I still say that the serious contenders are 1 and 2, so we should be agreed that life has appeared on earth from non-life at least once, and that the argument is natural versus supernatural origination.

BTW, you haven't yet answered my questions about the nature of stars. Do you accept that stars are hot balls of fusing gas, inconceivably far away?