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Truly amazing how the mind of man compartmentalizes segments of reality. Obviously were there to have ever been warm ponds as the origin of life there would be the evidence of them scattered across this planet.

Old Darwin's "warm pond" passing comment did get the attention of his future students as there is a belief that is where life originated. The debate is about the temperature of that supposed "pond".

See what is called systematically is the key to what evolution is crunched down to, it is a way of thinking. God did not create man in this flesh body. But hey, you see the Heavenly Father did not create robots that are programed to same think, He created us and placed that entity call the soul in this flesh body for us to pass through this flesh age to make choices for ourselves.

Ah but the evolutionists are not content in freedom of thought, as their survival is contingent upon the long arm of the government enforced indoctrination via the public school system funded with the taking of the tax dollars.

Yes I am well aware that your most likely comment will be to accuse me of rambling, or an idiot, or some other evolutionary derogatory slam of my intellect.

Ah but the evolutionists are not content in freedom of thought, as their survival is contingent upon the long arm of the government enforced indoctrination via the public school system funded with the taking of the tax dollars.

Oh, brother. Here we go again.

Science (with very rare exceptions) is not done in high school classrooms. That's just one place the results of doing science are summarized and reported, in curricula.

This confusion is akin to thinking that a baseball game is somehow decided on the sports page. No. That's just were the results are printed. The game actually occurs on a baseball field.

Working scientist don't give a heck about what they were told (or even "indoctrinated" on) in high school. They've long ago moved far beyond that. They only care about what ideas WORK and are PRODUCTIVE in advancing the research topics they're interested in. And THAT is entirely what the "survival" of evolution as a scientific theory is "contingent upon".

Many working scientists, if they picked up their old high school texts, would doubtless be horrified by the (often bone-headed and obtuse) over simplifications and misapprehensions therein.

The quality of introductory science curricula (that is primary, secondary and college level curricula prior to the Senior or Graduate level) only matters as it effects, for good or ill, the scientific literacy of the vast majority of citizens who do NOT go into research oriented science careers.

It doesn't matter one whit for those who end up doing science. They are necessarily forced, by the dynamic nature of science, to basically relearn their disciplines as soon as they move beyond introductory level instruction, and in effect to continually do so throughout their careers.

Old Darwin's "warm pond" passing comment did get the attention of his future students as there is a belief that is where life originated. The debate is about the temperature of that supposed "pond".

Not even close. There is broad, continuing and unresolved debate (or agnosticism) about where, or in what kind of environment, life might have originated. Something like a "warm little pond" is only one of many possibilities under consideration. Everything from surf zones, to deep sea vents, to the surfaces of clay minerals, and even interstellar space has been considered.