[Abe Froman]

"Whereas creationism insists a magic being whipped up the universe from nothing in six days. What's their point again?"


Funny how a biology department would insist on teaching a view of origins that is entirely incompatible with their own observedly and heretofore unbroken Law of Biogenesis.

We have never observed life springing from non-life in the natural world nor the laboratory. We are being asked to believe that what has never been observed to actually happen somehow did happen in the primeval past? When someone can create a living cell out of a bunch of non-living amino acids I'll plant my foot firmly in my mouth. Until then, I'm interested in what you can prove, not your faith. Believing evolution is incontrovertible fact requires just as much faith as the creationist.

[stanz]

We have never observed life springing from non-life in the natural world nor the laboratory.

Evolution speaks to how life has changed and adapted over geologic time. Species either survive or go extinct. That is an observable phenomenon and doesn't require any faith on the part of the student.
Biologists (and medical students) need to study evolution which focuses on comparative anatomy and functional morphology to gain insight into the workings of how, developmentally, we are related to other species and how this may affect our own evolutionary destiny.
Tempering one's biology curriculum by favoring the Big Etch-A-Sketch in the sky story to explain phenomena over tenets tested on the basis of observable evidence requires nothing more than faith and that is bad science.

[TigerTale]

We have never observed life springing from non-life in the natural world nor the laboratory.

Not yet. But we can now build copies of exisiting virii in the lab. Science is closing in on producing life in a test-tube.

[Concerned]

ABE FROMAN WROTE: "Believing evolution is incontrovertible fact requires just as much faith as the creationist."

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I AM RESPONDING:
Actually, it requires MORE faith! Check out http://www.answersingenesis.org .