I'll say again, your basic problem is, you don't actually know ANY real science. That's why I recommend you read the Scott book -- it will STOP YOU from telling gosh awful lies about what science says or doesn't say.
For example, there's certainly no recent scientific theory of "spontaneous generation" of life from puddles of mud.
That's because any REAL scientist would begin to investigate this question by first asking, "what is life?" Well, a relatively simple bacteria is surely alive, but is a virus? What about ancient precursors of life? Are there any naturally occurring chemical compounds which might behave in somewhat "lifelike" fashion, etc., etc.?
Remember, from a scientific perspective, we are dealing with hundreds of millions, even billions of years, during which the very simplest forms were the ONLY forms to leave traces in the fossil record.
schaef21:"In the meantime, it might be worth visiting that website that I mentioned to Fawn, www.dissentfromdarwin.com where you’ll find a whole bunch of scientists (over 700), mostly at the PhD level who say it’s to take a good hard look at the problems with the theory."
"Problems with the theory"? Do you mean, scientists who say that some early organic compounds may have arrived on earth inside comets or meteors? That's not a "problem with the theory?"
But your implication of an actual "700 scientists," who oppose the theory of evolution and subscribe instead to "Intelligent Design," is I'm certain is a flat out lie. That's because I'm not aware of ANY serious scientist who has published ANY major anti-evolution work in ANY recognized peer-reviewed scientific journal. None, zero, zip, nada.
THAT's what makes your pretense of "science" so fraudulent. You are not in the least science -- by your own words, you are ANTI-SCIENCE. And your pretense otherwise is just despicable.
By the way, this is exactly the point which distinguishes anti-evolution from anti-"global warming." In the global warming debate, there ARE actual scientists, who do real scientific work on the subject of climate change, who have published scientific articles pointing out real flaws in the typical AlGore global warming scenarios.
In my view, your anti-evolution "scientists" are far more akin to the so-called historians who work at the Institute for Historical Research, trying to "prove" the Holocaust never happened!
It's all a fraud and mascarade, and you guys really ought to go do something more honorable.
EVERY DAY, articles like the following are posted here on Free Republic:
U.S. Astronaut Jack Schmitt Joins Global Warming Skeptics
Note the key paragraphs:
"Schmitt will be among more than 70 scientists, economists, public officials, legal experts, and climate specialists calling attention to new research that contradicts claims that Earth’s moderate warming during the twentieth century primarily was man-made and has reached crisis proportions.
"Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, producer of the event along with more than 30 co-sponsors, explained, “At the first conference last March, we proved that the skeptics in the debate over global warming constitute the center or mainstream of the scientific community while alarmists are on the fringe.
" “Now in the past nine months, the science has grown even more convincing that global warming is not a crisis. Also suggesting this ‘crisis’ is over are opinion polls in the U.S. and around the globe and political events, including the decisive defeat of ‘cap-and-trade’ legislation in the U.S. Senate last spring. The crisis has been canceled by sound science and common sense.”
Nothing even remotely resembling these reports has EVER come out of the anti-evolution crowd.