Jet Black, you know its funny, i was talking over with a co-worker the other day. She is a real big dog lover. I asked her if hunting was wrong, morally that is, and she obviously said no. I then asked her, well, what about hunting dogs, is that wrong? She got a look on her face and said, "thats just wrong." You might not know where im going with this, but, its simple. People pick and choose what they want to believe in. There are about 6 billion different ideas about God, considering theres about 6 billion people in the world. Things ranging from not believing at all, to the die religion person. God doesnt care what you think, he cares what you know. But the story i told you about the co-worker. I asked, why is it wrong to kill humans, i mean, if evolution was correct and a scienfitic certainty then me, you, a bug, a dog, a deer, ect, everything is the same. I believe each of us has a conscience, something not explained in evolution obviously. If evolution were true, we are no different than the animals or bugs or fish we kill. Do you think its okay to kill someone else, but, heck, all we are are complex proteins, made from a single cell billions and billions of years ago. In theory, since we kill animals, its okay to kill humans as well, correct?
About your comments above, you said, "looking at living matter, there is nothing really special about it, other than it is more organised." I gotta say, you kinda shocked me there. Living matter is more complex than you or i or anyone could possible even fatham. You talk about RNA, DNA, and life being just another self-sustaining pattern. I personally think thats odd. I would assume that you know the basics of DNA, RNA, amino acids, and protein. It is also impossible to imagine that something so complex would create in a mere 15 billion years. Here's some good reading
http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/08dna02.htm#Mathematical Possibilities or this one
http://www.sixdaycreation.com/facts/creation/science/dec98.html.
Scientists have finally figured out complicated ways in expensive laboratories to synthesize dead compounds of four of these five, using rare materials such as hydrogen cyanide or cyanoacetylene. (Thymine remains unsynthesizable.) Sugar can be made in the laboratory, but the phosphate group is extremely difficult. In the presence of calcium ions, found in abundance in oceans and rivers, the phosphate ion is precipitated out. In life forms enzymes catalyze the task, but how could enzyme action occur outside of plants or animals? It would not happen.
Then there are the polynucleotide strands which have to form in exactly the fit needed to wrap neatly about the DNA helix molecule. A 100 percent exact fit is required. But chemists seem unable to produce much in the way of synthesized polynucleotides, and they are totally unable to make them in predetermined sizes and shapes.
EACH CHARACTERISTIC CONTROLLED BY MANY GENESThe more the scientists have studied genetics, the worse the situation becomes. Instead of each gene controlling many different factors in the body, geneticists have discovered that each factor is controlled by many different genes! Because of this, it would thus be impossible, either for the DNA code to gradually "evolve," or to change. The DNA code had to be there "all at once," and once in place, that code could never change!
Here's an awesome evolutionist site about the problem with the theory
http://evolution-facts.org/2evlch10a.htm
You also mentioned ignoring how it all started off, life being just applications of physics. To this i say, wow, how it all started could possibly be the answers to questions scientist have been looking for for years. How everything starting could be the single most important thing in science, it opens doors never found. About it being just applications of physics, i agree, it is, yet, there must be something or someone that applies these laws of phyics, chemistry, cosology, ect. These laws of science had a beginning. The universe didn't say all of a sudden, "i will pull two objects together with different masses (gravity)" No, these laws were set into motion by something. An electron has certain properties that make it an electron. It had to get it's instructions somewhere at sometime by something.
Lately you said, "so why should one assume that there is an all powerful omniscient eternal sentient perfect being to start it all of. To that i say, its faith, and its also scienfitic. There are way too many things in all areas of science pointing to an intelligent designer. 15 billion years is way to short of a time to begin everything we have now, considering the complexities of everything. Here's a good site about it
http://www.arn.org/docs/behe/mb_idfrombiochemistry.htm
