“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.” —Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA and Nobel Laureate
Folks, this is straight out of the book Life Itself (1982), by Francis Crick.
Our evolutionist friend doesn’t like it, so he claimed that Crick has retracted it, but of course he provided no evidence of such a retraction. He provided a link which supposedly contained the retraction, but it didn’t.
Yet he has the audacity to call me “dishonest” for simply quoting Crick out of his own book! This is the kind of crap we must put up with here.
Which means absolutely nothing, since Crick effectively said you're wrong. He admits your view was a mistake, overly pessimistic in light of later scientific research.
Luckily, scientists can say they don't know. They rely on the advancement of science to hopefully one day find out. They don't just give up and say "God must have done it."
Yet he has the audacity to call me “dishonest” for simply quoting Crick out of his own book!
The first time, no. Everybody makes mistakes. The second time after correction, yes. At that time you knew he retracted his statements and therefore the authority you appealed to no longer existed. An appeal to a knowingly false authority is dishonest.