> >At what point did "life" start?  What was the spark, so to speak?  What
> >caused a compound in a "primordial soup" to "feed", to grow and to start
> >replicating?  (Compound being some aggregate of chemicals, I guess.)
> 
> So Denys,
> 
> where did "GOD" come from? who is his "maker"?
> can't remember that answer.
> 
> Michael


Michael,

Please don't mix apples and oranges.

Denys asked questions that any good scientific theory should be able
to answer. In fact, some of those answers may in fact be known to some
population of biologists, although I certainly don't know what they
might be. The fact that there are unanswered does not mean evolution
as a theory is incorrect. It means that there is a possibility that
some experiment, observation, or fact will tell us that evolution is
not the correct theory, but right now it's the most plausible. It's
what happened to Newtonian physics when quantum physics came along.
The same may or may not happen to evolution, but right now it is the
strongest candidate for being the Right Explanation.

The existence of God, and his/her/it's possible origins, are decidedly
a matter of faith and are not subject to the same kind of inspection
that scientific theories are. My beleif in God is NOT predicated on
the answers to those questions, nor even that those questions are even
answerable.

Belief in God is (supposed to be) strictly faith. Belief in science is
(supposed to be) strictly evidence.

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