[longshadow]

That's a copout and intellectually dishonest at best. You cannot have "evilution" unless you first have "life", and for the "time" element of gradualism to be advanced one has to begin in the beginning, but I'm glad you agree that "evolution" is mere conjecture.

The Theory of Evolution no more needs to account for the origin of life than Meterology needs to account for the origin of water. Both work regardless of the actual mechanism of origin. Or, to put it another way, the Theory of Evolution is not contingent upon the mechanism by which life originated; it works regardless of what the actual mechanism is.

[PatrickHenry]

Copout!
</flaming idiot mode>

[f.Christian]

This sounds like a vacuum ...

more like an intellectual black out -- coma -- epilepsy !

The Theory of Evolution no more needs to account for the origin of life than Meterology needs to account for the origin of water.

Meterologist weather reporting and forecasting w/o knowledge of the earth revolving on an axis around the sun ... swamp gas (( evolution ))!

Both work regardless of the actual mechanism of origin.

Assteroids work too -- uncharterable // nonsense ... babble // gas science !

the Theory of Evolution is not contingent upon the mechanism by which life originated; it works regardless of what the actual mechanism is.

Evo mythology