Huh??
But for people who believe that there are influences other than naturalistic ones in the formation of life on the planet, abiogenesis and speciation are counter intuitive and for me - not believable.
Then I submit that you don't know much about the vast amount of evidence indicating that they did nonetheless happen, and the understanding of the processes by which they have.
I do admit, however, that if I had the view that only naturalistic processes have occurred since the earth was molten magma (which evolutionary scientists believe), then believing in abiogenesis and evolution becomes more compelling.
I take it you're not aware of the fact that the majority of Americans who believe evolution are *Christians*?
I think the influence of evolution is waning.
..mostly because of the efforts of rabid anti-evolutionists (mostly creationists) who keep lying about it to the public -- like the ones who obviously told you the following lies:
I used to believe it for the most part, but due to the Cambrian explosion, and lack of transitional species,
First, the "Cambrian explosion" took place over about a hundred million years.
Second, there are *thousands* of transitional fossils which have already been found, and more are being found practically every day. I know that creationists are fond of repeatedly claiming that there are "no transitional fossils", but quite bluntly, they're lying like two-dollar whores.
I tend to believe all life was created about the same time.
You're welcome to believe anything you like, no matter how much it is contradicted by the evidence and real-world reality checks.
And since science is better at creating theories based on empirical and testable information, it is better suited to current issues than guessing what happenened a long time ago with limited fossil evidence.
Ah, yet another creationist misrepresentation. There is, in fact, a *vast* amount of "empirical and testable information" about the history of life on Earth, and the fossil evidence is hardly "limited". Nor is the nearly *unimaginable* amount of "empirical and testable information" contained within the combined DNA of all the life forms on Earth accurately described as "limited" -- there is more information on evolutionary history "archived" in the genomes of living organisms than there is information in all the books in all the libraries on the planet. "Limited", you say?
I regret to inform you that the creationists have lied to you again.