[DARCPRYNCE]

"You have made the principal error that creationists make regarding the theory of Evolution. The theory of Evolution says absolutely nothing about the origins of life. It deals only with speciation."

Nonsense. The theory of evolution assumes that life began by random chance, out of lifeless chemicals, and then branched out into many different forms from a single organism.

[MineralMan]

"The theory of evolution assumes that life began by random chance, out of lifeless chemicals, and then branched out into many different forms from a single organism.
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No, it does not.

[doc30]

Nonsense. The theory of evolution assumes that life began by random chance, out of lifeless chemicals, and then branched out into many different forms from a single organism.

That is not what evolution is about. As MinrealMan has said before, you do not even know the basic definition of evolution. Evolution is the theory that explains how new species emerge and diverge from other species. It has nothing to do with the origin of life. That is a field called abiogenesis. To say evolution concerns the origin of life is another creationist lie. Even Darwin's book was titled "the Origin of Species" not "The Origin of Life." Educate yourself before posting creationsist trash.

[Mylo]

(you said Evolution but meant Abiogenesis)"assumes that life began by random chance, out of lifeless chemicals, and then branched out into many different forms from a single organism."

hmmm. Seems that quantum mechanics informs us that matter began by random chance, out of matterless energy, and then branched out into many different molecular forms.

Don't get caught up in the fact that the mechanism is random into thinking that it means it is all "by accident". The formation of atomic structure is random, but given the conditions of the universe, formation of matter is inevitable. So how can you say that the formation of matter is "by accident"?

Mutation is random, but given the conditions of life on earth, evolution through natural selection is inevitable. So how can you say that evolution is "by accident"?

During the last European Ice Age, the rabbits all turned white. Now the mechanism of mutation of the genes that supplied color to the rabbit pelt was random, but the outcome was inevitable. Something that is inevitable is not "by accident".

Do you understand this?