[Antoninus]

The belief that science will continue to progress as it has these last few hundred years is not exactly an unfounded "faith," and nor is it restricted to "fundamentalist atheists."

We were not talking about science in general. We were talking about one specific advancement. I applaud your "faith" in science to solve that particular problem.

[orionblamblam]

> I applaud your "faith" in science to solve that particular problem.

The guy who decoded the human genome is on his way to doing what you consider fanciful. The history of science has shown that unless somethign is agaisn tthe laws of physics, it'll eventually be done. And since there's nothing in the laws of phsyics stating that life cannot come from lifelessness, I have no doubt that it will eventually be done.