I'm not anti-science. But if you think science is the work of advanced amoebas explain it to me. Why can't scientists take the amoeba and engineer an elephant? Both creatures contain the same elements.
And both lead and gold contain the same sorts of subatomic particles. Do scientists have to be able to transmute lead into gold before you'll take the periodic table seriously? (And you say you're 'not anti-science'?)
No, but scientists don't claim that lead transmutes into gold in nature. If they did or thought it did, they would attempt to repeat it in experiments.
What is the origin of life? I believe in Natural Selection occurring within a species for adaptation. But where did the species come from? Simple question that a smart lawyer like you should be able to answer. I know that I'm just a simple engineer but I have never witnessed a circuit designing itself. I can put boxes and boxes of components in a vat of mud and salt water and repeatedly hit it with high voltage and never get the simplist circuit to evolve. Yet I am to believe that the entire universe just happened?
Who's the bumpkin here? If you have to chase an ambulance and don't have time to answer, I understand.