"OK, one more. No, they don't explicitly acknowledge ID, but they *cannot* explain the first living cell by purely naturalistic, "random" processes. Until they can explain it, ID is really the only alternative"
Wow, that is a HUGE leap. Because you don't know something, the supernatural is the only answer? Why study anything at all? What if aliens implanted the first living cell? That is as provable as an old man in the sky.
This is just a side discussion, I am arguing that evolution does not depend on how that first living cell got here. Evolution only requires that a living organism, capable of reproduction exist.
"Wow, that is a HUGE leap. Because you don't know something, the supernatural is the only answer? Why study anything at all? What if aliens implanted the first living cell?"
What if they did? All it would mean is that the origin of life is pushed off to a different location. The basic problem of *how* it happened would still remain.
And you still don't get the basic idea. The problem is not just that we "don't know how life originated." The problem is that we know with near certainty that it couldn't have happened by purely natural processes. If it couldn't have happened by purely natural processes, how else could it have happened? You only get one guess.