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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Theories of evolution technically begin after the appearance of the first living cell.  However, Dawkins devoted one chapter of [u]The Blind Watchmaker[/u] to speculation about applying evolutionary theories to the origin of life.

Of course, if Dawkins is correct there is no Designer of any kind, that would include the time before the origin of life.  So scientists' inability to explain the origin of life by naturalist causes should be considered problematic.  But Dawkins flatly states, "The present lack of a definitely accepted account of the origin of life should certainly not be taken as a stumbling block for the whole Darwinian worldview."[/quote]

Let me stop you right there.  Two things:  the "God hypothesis" falls prey to the same problem.  You seem to think that some rhetorical trick like "eternal is part of the essence of God, therefore he's exempt", but that's frankly horseshit.  You can't get there by mere assertion.  Otherwise, we'd just say that the same is true for the Universe.  No god necessary.  In fact, He just unnecessarily complicates things.

[quote]But what if all the evidence shows life [i]could not[/i] arise from purely naturalistic causes?  That is where we stand right now, with the complexity of the simplest single cell surpassing Darwin's imagination.[/quote]

This is, as the saying goes, "not even wrong," and is an insult to your correspondents' intelligence.   Are you honestly offering up the argument that, unless Darwin could describe the full phenomenon of "a cell", the field of evolutionary biology that's derived from his work is suspect?  Don't answer that.  Yes you are.[/quote]

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