[Mr. Silverback]

I haven't seen much progress in the movement since then, except to pretend that earlier silly positions never existed.

It should be noted that the same thing has occurred on the evo side. I hardly ever venture into crevo threads, yet I've been told numerous times that "evolution doesn't address the origins of life."

Yeah. Tell that to Carl Sagan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l82vN_x3Pg

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

I hardly ever venture into crevo threads, yet I've been told numerous times that "evolution doesn't address the origins of life."

Yes, this claim is too funny. I mean, a famous evolutionist named Henry Fairfield Osborn even wrote a book about abiogenesis and goo-to-you evolution. Paul Erhlich's evolution textbook begins with abiogenesis. And then there's the classic evolutionary abiogenesis fable foisted on the public: Huxley's and Haeckel's Bathybius.

"Bathybius... is a vast sheet of living matter enveloping the whole earth beneath the seas." -- Huxley