[Southack]

"Can natural selection and variation occur without self-replicating molecules, and if so, do you have any tangible scientific examples of such?"

[js1138]

How about prions? Do you believe they self-replicate? Do you believe they are subject to selection.

Again, all of your arguments are founded in the fact that we do not know the exact process by which life originated. Such ignorance is transitory.

There are two main possibilities -- that God said so and that's it, or it arose from a natural progression. If you believe in the natural progression, you may also believe that nature was created in such a way as to allow this to occur.