[Dimensio]

I find it amusing that we can't just say that we don't have any really good idea as to how life started.

Funny, that was exactly what I was taught in high school. A few hypothesis were mentioned, but it was stressed that nothing had come to the level of theory regarding life origins. Also, evolution was taught as theory, not fact -- but then, I had a biology teacher who made sure that we understood exactly how science worked and thus we were aware that nothing in science becomes more "certain" than a theory.

[ECM]

Congrats: in high school bio I got--count 'em--one theory for the origin and development of life, and one only...any guesses as to which that was?