"Your incredulousness stems from a poverty of vision on your part, not from any problem with evolutionary theory."
Yep, it's my own inability to accept the impossible that makes me so stubborn. It couldn't be that evolution can never answer the big questions, like how did life form from inanimate matter? I'll tell you what. You get all your PhD's together, gather up all the water, oxygen, nutrients, and anything else you want, all of it inanimate, and make a single-celled form of life, then give me a call.
I don't think you have any idea how long 3.5 billion years is. I can get creationists to accept that incremental changes do occur to genotypes, but you people are inevitably lost on the cumulative effect of those changes over many generations. That stems entirely from a poverty of vision -- the numbers just get too big and you just throw up your hands and say "Prokaryote! Human! It's just too complicated for me to imagine!"
t couldn't be that evolution can never answer the big questions, like how did life form from inanimate matter?
Evolution also doesn't explain why the earth is round, why peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth, or why beer tastes better out of a tap than it does in a can. It simply explains a change in allelle frequencies over time, and that's not a failure on its part.
You get all your PhD's together, gather up all the water, oxygen, nutrients, and anything else you want, all of it inanimate, and make a single-celled form of life, then give me a call.
In any event, wouldn't that be Intelligent Design?