snip....we know without question that they exist, because their existence can be inferred from existing evidence, and from the fact that postulating their "existence" can be used to predict the outcome of experiments in different areas of science.
Another gigantic leap of faith! You're truly agile Warthog! This time you're literally straddling the chasm between two antithetical creation stories. You're doing so because you're unable to make sense of your 'evolution' theories based upon your "chance, accident, unintelligent, purposeless, & chaos" creation story, so you must "borrow" predictability and reliability, etc. from the Christian creation story.
Tell me Warthog, what do "unintelligent chemicals & other materials" wandering about in whatever existed prior to what exists now know about predictability???? And why would they care about creating such a thing???
Your responses need to be referenced in Your creation story.......Not mine.
Quite a bit, actually. It's called "laws of science" (in this case, the science of chemistry), and it is ALL ABOUT predictability. If you don't understand that fundamental point, then you are even more clueless about how science works than I thought.
BTW, I understand the predictability of "unintelligent chemicals and other materials" quite well (PhD Chemist).