[Dimensio]

There is a reason we still call it a theory after all these years.

What else would we call it? Are you suggesting that a theory can become something else?

The evidence is still pretty cluttered and when you get down to the basics of biology and chemistry the beginning seems statistically impossible. Not just unlikely but impossible.

What "beginning"?

One of the things I find curious is that for natural selection to work at the present time both nucleic acids and proteins must be present. Theoretically, they must have 'evolved' at the same time since they function interdependently, not independently.

What are you talking about? Natural selection simply requires that parents produce offspring with small but measurable genetic differences that can create a reproductive advantage amongst certain members within the population.

[siunevada]

What are you talking about?

Please see Post 102.

What's interesting to me is that for natural selection to occur today both nucleic acids and proteins must function. They are interdepndent.

That means for natural selection to have had a beginning, both had to emerge from the prebiotic soup at exactly the same time. They currently don't exist independently of each other.