I think you guys are so paranoic about the Creationists that you end up giving them far more press coverage than they are due.
Compound that with the knee-jerk reaction you all have to even the discussion of PANSPERMIA and it's beginning to look like any number of evolutionists have some serious neurological disorders.
IT IS NOT REQUIRED for life to begin on Earth. We have an enormous universe out there and billions of years for things to happen.
Then, there's the pseudoscience so many try to pass off as sound evolutionary process. We see that when you use puppy dog breeding as an example of how we get a new species or two out of an old species.
Wolves and dogs are the SAME species! With assistance we can even mix the breeds no matter how different they might be too. (See this month's Scientific American for yet another faulty plemic that uses dogs.)
Although your particular post drifted "off topic", it ended up as a very good example of the problem folks like Bill Maher have.
You don't know what you are talking about. Creation is not contained in the theory of evolution.
Darwin used selective breeding in dogs and other animals as an example of how natural selection works in the wild.
Btw, I am a Christian minister, so I don't have anything against Christians, just heretical conmen that make Christians look stupid.