<< The problem with this is that there are so many "ifs" (likely, very likely, can instead of will,may, etc.). >>
You said "cannot." That source in opposition said "can." What is erroneous about the scientific reasoning behind "can" -- and how can you be so sure of "cannot"? It sounds like your "cannot" is religiously based argument, not science.
I see you have chosen to use Dr. Sarfati as your authority in this area. I have read a little Sarfati. He's a very smart man. Other very smart men have refuted his arguments. I have read some of his other arguments -- and I do understand their refutation.
I believe that Sarfati's young-earth-creationism fatally biases his scientific reasoning. I do not really trust Sarfati as a reliable source of information in this area -- but if I wanted advice on chess, I would certainly love to have him on my side.
Life IS here. Life DID arise. Whatever the conditions were -- life arose in those conditions. I don't have a problem with a Creator -- and I don't have a problem without one. If you need the idea of a Creator, that doesn't bother me a bit. But life is here, so it started somehow -- no matter how low the probability was -- with or without that creator.
The probability of an event that HAS HAPPENED is 100% after it has happened.
OK, Will not.
"I see you have chosen to use Dr. Sarfati as your authority in this area."See pots #514 & #518 for clarity.
I believe that Sarfati's young-earth-creationism fatally biases his scientific reasoning.
As apposed to the unbiased research of so many secularist-Evolutionist. Science is science; show me the bias in his reasoning in this debate of what we discussed, or are you trying to be insulting?
If you need the idea of a Creator, that doesn't bother me a bit.
If you don't need a Creator, it doesn't bother me, too bad it bothers the ACLU and all the other Darwin bulldogs, enough to try to rid the government school system of the "preposterous, mind-shrinking falsehood." I've shown you specifically in post #509 why the beginning matters;to reiterate, Evolution begins with the "primordial soup." If biology books don't need this in high schools, they need to stop making them drink the stuff.