If we accept the facts given by fossil evidence, living creatures appeared on the Earth suddenly. What explanation accounts for that?

"To the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits belonging to these assumed earliest periods prior to the Cambrian system, I can give no satisfactory answer.." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Part Two, p. 90. Watch this video to learn more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKsQlq_oFvc

To say that the universe supports life because we are living proof of it does not address the problem of how simple or complex life appears to have suddenly popped up out of a non-living universe to begin with. Evolution seems to only give us assurances if you believe it, but no real answers to those looking for evidence-based replies to these questions.

Most of these arguments can be refuted with simple searches or by taking an actual class related to that field. I, like Jack, am looking for a rational argument that is supported by evidence.

Cheers,
Jared

"Elliot Birch is the original creator of the Young Australian Skeptics….He found that many of his class mates were quick to believe things of a religious or pseudoscientific nature, and after reading Richard Dawkins’s “The Ancestors Tale”, he was spurred on to create a site and community that would help promote science to young people in Australia and worldwide."

He decided to leave it all to Jack, and now "… focuses on fringe science and the paranormal."

So much for skepticism.

The cunning fox tries to get the grapes hanging above his head, but comes us short everytime he jumps for them. Finally he cries in frustration, "Oh those grapes were sour anyway!" And walks away.

It is a clear sign of their frustration and impotence when evolutionists can't rationally defeat a simple argument against their materialism, except with their wimpy "word salad" refrain.

Cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements.

The Argument from Faith

"We haven't figured out how to do it yet but one day in the future we will do it."

Every age has its fundamentalists. We have ours in the 21st Century too – the materialist/naturalist/atheist/scientists. From an early age they are conditioned by family and society to think the way they do. It is not entirely their fault. Not everyone has the strength of character/intelligence needed to overcome that conditioning, and to keep up with the rapid change in knowledge and understanding that comes with the progress of actual scientific discovery.

And when fools are in the company of other fools like themselves, they smile at each other and think, "We know it all." All chance of convincing them of their folly is lost. My solution would be to send them to their own planet, let them live together with other insane persons like them, and thereby let them learn by experience what kind of life they will produce without the saner section of society to keep things going. How long do you think they will live on Mars with the faith that they will produce vegetation in the laboratory in the future. They can send Jack and his Yasses and see how long it will take before they change their tune. (Only kidding. What would we do without Jack to tease.)