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Schrodinger's wife says to him one morning at breakfast: "Erwin, what have you been doing to that cat? He looks half dead!"

<snark> Your brew did not grow cold on its own. That would require a decrease in entropy which, according to the 2nd Law of Creationist Thermodynamics cannot happen anywhere, at any time unless it was deliberately orchestrated by an intelligent force. So the real question is: Who made your...

Correct. Except in normal gaseous form, it's H2.

The "Or" is crucial. Pure hydrogen OR pure oxygen. The two mixed together within certain bounds of concentration yields an explosive mixture. Look up the Mythbusters episode where they try to create a methane explosion in a port-a-potty. They repeatedly failed to achieve ignition because the...

AV, which theory predicts that? Does it involve psychedelic drugs?

Nonsense. I've said it many times and I'll say it again: Even if the first life forms were literally miracled into existence by whatever god you choose, it would not reduce the validity of evolution as an explanation of the diversity of life on earth. To have a full understanding of life's...

Is this worthy of meaningful discussion? "Do you consider an animal the size of a dog with five distinct digits on each foot to be a 'fully formed horse'?"

Do you know of any "fully formed horses" with 5 toes, each with its own little "hoof"?

Hooray, another digression. How was creationism of use in any of these persons' scientific accomplishments? Another unfounded claim. How is evolution any more a religious philosophy than the Atomic Theory or Newtonian Mechanics? Unlike religion, the theory of evolution has changed to...

I think Moonlancer has hit the nail on the head. Your "points" have been answered, but you find reasons to ignore the answers by complaining about irrelevant things. In fact you haven't really presented any kind of argument for your position since post #161. Therefore these digressions are...

Have you not been listening? No one knows exactly how the first living cell came to be. However, that has nothing to do with the validity of evolution. Well, no. Probably because your unanswered questions have nothing to do with the validity of evolution. Yes. The evidence is quite...

Does poliovirus count? Yes, researchers have assembled synthetic poliovirus from mail-order nucleotide sequences. Also, I might point out that religious explanations of origins dominated human thought for thousands of years prior to the advent of modern biology and in all that time have...

How about for the reason that these "judicial restrictions" exist in the first place: namely that it is morally wrong and harmful to society to force people to support a religion with their tax dollars that is not their own? Our science books are full of theories: Newton's Theory of Gravity...

I thought I was quite explicit on that point. A code is an abstract representation of a thing. The symbols are arbitrary. DNA does not represent anything. It is the thing. Genes do not represent proteins, they are physical objects used in the manufacture of proteins. As I said, most are...

Living systems abide by the 2nd law as well. How exactly the first ones came to be is one of the great unanswered questions of science and the subject of the discipline known as abiogenesis. However, it remains that the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not in any sense preclude the advent of...