We see the small scale changes all the time. We have clear physical explanations for small changes. We've even seen single celled organisms operate as colony organisms... a necessary step to increased complexity.
This, again, talks about the operation. What I am concerned about is the cause.
No object can escape a universal cause unless acted upon by an external agent. Thus, the early life surviving the hostile environment proves the involvement of an intelligent mind
Across the range of life there's more then just asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction with two sexes. There are also species who sexually reproduce, but are all effectively both sexes. There are species who reproduce in different ways in different circumstances.
What I'm saying is that there are clear transitional stages from the two seemingly different positions you describe.
Also, can you explain how it shows the involvement of an intelligent mind?
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What sort of "natural agents" mutated the primitive bacteria, presumably unisex, into complex male and female with organs which complement each other? Not to mention, their instinct to live together and reproduce.
Additionally, why would those "natural agents" give male birds shining feathers, male humans facial hairs and different voice from females?
Humans are the smartest, most technological species to ever walk the Earth, but I know of no demonstrable trait that doesn't have an analogue in the animal kingdom.
Animals do have life, a metaphysical property, which cannot be a natural part of their physical life by definition.
Additionally, we know living beings are pre programmed to protest their own life so, the instinct of mothers animals risking their own life to protect their children cannot be termed "natural".
An important start point would be evidence of an Intelligent Designer the mechanism by which it operates.
Evidence would be "order" or "discipline". Natural agents by definition cannot induce order.
It strikes me as incredibly disingenuous to use your personal incredulity about the effectiveness of evolution or chemistry to abandon them as explanations... they to accept an entity with unknown or unknowable ability as any kind of explanation.
Abandon? I don't deny Science. And I know that Science cannot answer the ontological question we are talking about.
All temperatures and environments of the Earth has life in it... the dark depths of the ocean, inside the rocks of the mantle, it even survived on the outside of our space craft.
Life grows and replaces itself... especially when there aren't any competitors.
If the primitive forms of live always exists then why have we seen the origin of life only once? The primitive life form in the early earth not only survived but progressed to complex forms.