In all honesty, I'm about as agnostic as they come. I do not hold onto any belief for dear life and get dogmatic about it to the point where it flies in the face of all available evidence. Everything I do believe, or believe possible, is subject to change.

I think it's difficult to deny that the basic ideas of evolution are correct.

Do I think that life began, and works, through completely random processes? I used to, until very recently. I'm thinking now that it's possible that other processes are also at work of which we understand little or nothing. I am not prepared to say "God did it" to everything. But I'm learning more about energy, vibrations, and something called morphic fields, an idea proposed by renegade British scientist Rupert Sheldrake. I was led to him as a reaction against the depressing dogmatic skeptics I'd been debating with, and I am very intrigued by his research.

The classic agnostic response here then: I don't know. I think it is possible and even plausible that organic chemicals could start to replicate. I also think that other factors could be involved. It's arrogant to think that the entire world can be explained by what we can see, experience and measure concretely.

I'm reading right now about the "hidden messages in water." I'm open to all kinds of things.

Does that answer your question?