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Quote by: Zeebadee And yet, for all your mumbo jumbo rhetoric,

Just because you don't understand some pretty simple science doesn't mean that it is mumbo jumbo. It seems to me that claims that a magical being did it by magic is more mumbo jumbo.

if you follow your own rules of evidence, you can't make the claim that creationism is impossible,

But I never did. I did claim that there is no observable evidence for creationism. The point of science, including biological science, is not to prove religious mumbo jumbo wrong but to offer explanations for observations of natural events in the observable universe.

for the simple fact is that you can neither disprove it,

Who is trying to do so. All I can do is to point out errors in logic and science from creationists in their silly and ineffective efforts to "prove" science wrong. When creationists try to represent their beliefs in mythology as scientific and represent established science as wrong because it cannot be reconciled with an old book of mythology, then their beliefs get treated as science and rejected, just like incorrect science. It isn't that science is trying to "prove" creationism wrong, it's the creationists that are doing an inadequate job of trying to prove science wrong, and then throw a hissy when they make themselves look foolish.

nor can you provide proof of some other source for the origin of life.

Why do I have to? You are proposing the "god of the gaps." If science cannot adequately answer a specific question, then it musta been your god.

However, the scientific field of abiogenesis that studies how life may have come about has discovered lots of information. For example, there are several kinds of self replicating organic molecules. It has been observed that contains several types of such molecules, it is those that are more successful at reproducing themselves that become the most numerous. It has been observed that lipid membranes sometimes form spontaneously in nature. Researchers have also constructed two viruses that reproduce just like the originals from which they were copied. And now, a bacterium has been constructed in the lab. The entire genomes of the above organisms were pieced together by constructing segments of RNA or DNA and then joining these segments together in the right sequence. The bacterium is Mycoplasma genitalium, a bacterium with the smallest known genome in any free living bacterium. The genome consists of 582,970 base pairs. It is a parasite that infects primate genital and respiratory tracts. The particular gene that allows it to infect primates was deactivated in the artificial version. However, the point is that a living organism was artificially constructed in the lab.