[spqrzilla9]

The question of how life started - aka "abiogenesis" - is separate from evolution. Evolution proper does not make claims on how life started, only how life has behaved since.

[kpp_kpp]

The question of how life started - aka "abiogenesis" - is separate from evolution

thank you. exactly my point. that is why i see the creationist/evolutionist debates as pointless. you could go around in circle for eternity (ah the elusive concept of time again) debating theories, especially unrelated ones.

[Elsie]

Evolution proper does not make claims on how life started, only how life has behaved since.

Translation: "We KNOW we'd lose THIS one!"