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I found much of your post uninterpretable. No responses are attempted for those portions.
Of course you did since you can't understand that not mentioning God is not the same as saying He doesn't exist, even though you do it every day.

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Putting aside your implication that science is not trustworthy, what are the trustworthy methods of investigating history.
They include examining artifacts and documents from the past. They include comparing narratives from different sources.

And you examine artifacts without using the scientific method? You compare sources without using the scientific method?

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Alternatively, ID can attempt to go on the offensive and scientifically demonstrate the others are impossible (I do not say this hasn't already been done, so nobody start.)
I thought they were already on the offensive. (In Texas, In Kansas, In Dover....)
But my parenthetical vision of the future, well this time I didn't omit. I knocked that one out of the park.
That's because according to the Discovery Institute and apparently you, "scientifically demonstrating the others are impossible" is best done at school boards and among elected officials and not with scientists. Obviously the evidence is so strong that we should just bypass the people who understand biology and go right to the people who don't.

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Certainly there are hypotheses that make attempts to explain the process from chemicals to life. However, they are not completely fleshed out. They have to be modified as evidence and experimentation are accounted for.
In other words, increments.
There exists hope of an incomplete group of incompatible baby-steps, which still do not add up to anything remotely resembling life. No news there. We all knew that.
Since you never really provided a refutation of any of the steps associated with abiogenesis theory, I don't see how you can make the "incompatible baby-steps" proclamation and expect me to accept it without some evidence supplied by you.

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Assuming there were a Designer, the evidence points to a universe designed to operate on its own for the most part. Chemicals combine different ways under different conditions. They seem to do this on their own. Self-replicating molecules have been shown to develop on their own. Simple ones are crystals. More complicated ones are the result of combinations of amino acids which form proteins that, once formed, replicate themselves as long as the raw materials are available.
These things have been observed in labs, so, yes the process still works.

Sorry I asked. Due to an imperfection in the definition of "molecule" it does encompass crystals. That's right - a diamond is one big molecule. A sheet of graphite is also technically a molecule. There's no indication that it's alive, or on the way to becoming so.
A crystal can indeed be a molecule, but it doesn't replicate - it just grows larger and larger. Feel free not to understand the difference.
You mean the atoms just continue to get larger? So much for my chemistry knowledge. I actually thought they added atoms to the crystal structure in order to increase the physical size of the crystal.
Since the atoms themselves get physically bigger (as you alluded to) have they ever grown a diamond atom big enough that they could see the nucleus and the electrons?

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The "more complicated ones" are the man-made ones. Or man-confiscated (from life). How well do they perform? I'll let AIG field this issue. These are not natural, not capable of performing in a natural setting, and the experiments indicate they will not lead to life, even in the lab. I don't see them overturning the law of biogenesis.
Of course the amino acids that we found on meteorites were made by man and sent into space so that it would look like they were naturally occurring.
It's too bad you and Answers can't tell the difference between an experiment set up to mimic naturally occurring environments from one that is set up to manufacture a particular product. Perhaps you could provide the research report from one of those experiments that resulted in the "man made" replicating molecules. Then you could point out for me exactly which part of the controls or environment set up are improper.


A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke