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What is the greatest evidence against the theory of evolution...?

Loudmouth

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Evolution doesn't work: life cannot arise from random mutation.

Based on what evidence?

Why do you believe it does?

Because all of the evidence supports that conclusion. Even you have admitted that the evidence is consistent with this conclusion.
 
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Evolution doesn't work: life cannot arise from random mutation. Why do you believe it does?
Ah, but then they say that the origin of life (the supposed first organism crawling out of the magical soup) is not the ToE.
 
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Based on what evidence?
Too complex and intricate. Mutations are not suitable for creating life.

ts that conclusion. Even you have admitted that the evidence is consistent with this conclusion.
Give us the evidence that life is just the product of mutation.
 
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The eye doesn't work without the brain, and the brain doesn't work without the heart, and the heart doesn't work without the rest of the body.

Vastly oversimplistic, and only causing *apparent* problems by jumping in very late in the proceedings.

"A team of researchers, including Stanford scientists, has discovered that certain single-celled infectious bacteria can tell the difference between light and dark, and actually increase their infectiousness 10-fold when hit by sunlight." 2007


"It was already known that Synechocystis cells move towards a light source that is shone at them from one side, which implies that the cyanobacteria can “see” where the light is. But how can such a tiny cell accurately detect where light is coming from?

Schuergers et al. tracked how Synechocystis moved in response to different light conditions, and found that the secret of “vision” in these cyanobacteria is that the cells act as tiny spherical lenses. When a light is shone at the cell, an image of the light source is focused at the opposite edge of the cell. Light-detecting molecules called photoreceptors respond to the focused image of the light source, and this provides the information needed to steer the cell towards the light. Although the details are different, and although a Synechocystis cell is in terms of volume about 500 billion times smaller than a human eyeball, vision in Synechocystis actually works by principles similar to vision in humans." 2016.

Useful working with light long before a brain, or a separately developed eye.
All the core material required for further evolution by natural selection, in the event of improved sensing of light being an advantage (Over and against the energy penalties required.)
 
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Perfect for it's function, yes. Maybe not perfect in the way you'd imagine. It was made so we can see, and guess what? We can see!

But we cannot see PERFECTLY as you would claim! In fact, we cannot see even as well as an octopus. Why were we 'created' to see less efficiently than an octopus? Why are vertebrate fish and ourselves forced to put up with a lesser quality eye than the squid?
 
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Too complex and intricate.

Where is the evidence that life is too complex and intricate to be the result of evolution?

Mutations are not suitable for creating life.

Based on what evidence?

Give us the evidence that life is just the product of mutation.

Universal common ancestry and the nested hierarchy of life is the evidence that all life is the product of evolution (not just mutations):

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section1.html#nested_hierarchy
 
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But we cannot see PERFECTLY as you would claim! In fact, we cannot see even as well as an octopus. Why were we 'created' to see less efficiently than an octopus? Why are vertebrate fish and ourselves forced to put up with a lesser quality eye than the squid?
I'm not God. If you have problems with your eyes, take it up with Him.
 
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Vastly oversimplistic, and only causing *apparent* problems by jumping in very late in the proceedings.

"A team of researchers, including Stanford scientists, has discovered that certain single-celled infectious bacteria can tell the difference between light and dark, and actually increase their infectiousness 10-fold when hit by sunlight." 2007
So they have a light sensor built in.
And?
 
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