>Creationism is one of the primary ways Conservatism discredits itself to the world.
What? Oh come on, there are a LOT of deficiencies in the evolutionary theory. Here’s the two big ones for me:
1) The transition from nonlife to life; the complexities of even the “simple” forms of life [such as viruses] is staggering. Scientists have been unable to even *engineer* new fully-functional life.
2) The development of sexual reproduction; this doubles the minimum number of entities which are needed to produce another generation compared to asexual reproduction, AND the possession of a “half developed” sex-organs is *exactly* the thing that evolution says should be dropped.
What an astonishing argument!
Do you expect scientists to replicate in a test tube what it took God billions of years to evolve?
Do you think scientists should be so omnipotent?
Or do you imagine God is so nearly human?
The fact is that scientists have found evidence for and even partially replicated very ancient forms of "pre-life" chemicals.
Some day, who knows?, maybe they will reconstruct the entire evolutionary sequence leading to life.
But why should it make much difference to us whether they do or haven't yet?
OneWingedShark:
There are many, many biological examples today of asexual or semi-sexual reproduction amongst plants, animals and other little critters that seem never to have gotten the "have sex" memo.
Those who did "get it," of course, have done much better, for obvious evolutionary reasons.