[BipolarBob]

I’d say the biggest hole(s) to resolve are (1) How did life first originate? (and don’t give me that primordial soup without some hard facts) (2) How does evolution work to give us eyes and hands that work just where we need them? (3) How does the genetic material from a one-celled organism enlarge itself to EVER become an elephant/human?

[Eccl 10:2]

I’d say the biggest hole(s) to resolve are (1) How did life first originate? (and don’t give me that primordial soup without some hard facts) (2) How does evolution work to give us eyes and hands that work just where we need them? (3) How does the genetic material from a one-celled organism enlarge itself to EVER become an elephant/human?

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I’ll give you the Darwinist answers in understandable form:

1) We have no earthly idea
2) We have no earthly idea
3) We have no earthly idea

[The Antiyuppie]

I believe that a lot of the controversy about evolution has to do with Man’s inherent inability to grasp the concept of large numbers (not the EXPRESSION of large numbers, but the concept). Supposedly, the human mind can’t really discern more than about 100 items as a group- anything past that is “a lot” or “many”. So, how do you grasp 10,000? A million? A billion? A LOT of things can happen in a billion years.

This problem of grasping the concept of large numbers extends to other areas like the budget deficit.

[BroJoeK]

BipolarBob: "I’d say the biggest hole(s) to resolve are

• (1) How did life first originate? (and don’t give me that primordial soup without some hard facts)"

Seriously, science doesn't know how life originated on earth, and so there are now about a dozen different hypotheses proposing one possibility or another.
None have been confirmed, and if any ever are, my guess is they will find some combination or sequence which turned complex but lifeless organic chemicals into very simple but recognizably living cells.
That is, assuming we never find evidence of life arriving on Earth from outer space.

• "(2) How does evolution work to give us eyes and hands that work just where we need them?"

That question is simpler to answer, because natural selection weeds out any critters born with eyes and hands in the wrong place.
But on the larger question of how did we get eyes in the first place -- many examples of critters with very simple light detectors, others with crude "eyes" and still others with eyes only slightly less complex than our own.
Here is one graphical explanation:

• "(3) How does the genetic material from a one-celled organism enlarge itself to EVER become an elephant/human?"

In fact, the DNA of every recognizably living thing on earth is amazingly similar, and that's one suggestion of common ancestry (or if you prefer: a single Creator).
And, just as we don't know how life first arose here, we also don't know how single celled organisms became not just multi-celled, but also developed organs to eat, breath and reproduce.
However, there are many clues in the fact that Earth still has many very simple multi-celled critters which could well be survivors from that most ancient of times.

[RitchieAprile]

there aren’t any ‘hard facts’ until more scientific work is done. that’s how things in science usually work.