[Exnihilo]

The evidence for evolution is that all the data falls into a clear pattern, explained by mutation and natural selection

Wrong! The "evidence" is the data that is explained if we *assume* that mutations and natural selection are sufficient for biological information creation. This of course, is a statement of faith, not empirically verified by real science.

[PatrickHenry]

This of course, is a statement of faith, not empirically verified by real science.

We cannot start life on earth all over again, and from bacteria develop the living world we see around us. To demand this is to claim that all scientific explanations of the past are invalid. To embrace your standard would abolish geology, cosmology, and much of biology and astronomy too. Your standard would leave us utterly ignorant of the past. Sorry, there's a lot that we have learned about the past, notwithstanding that we can't literally re-create the past.

[PatrickHenry]

I see you've gone and started a thread of your own. Nice distraction. Transparent cop-out.