Well, maybe Jeanie. Depends how one sees it. We Christians (fundamentalists) believe that God made man out of the dust of the earth, just as stated so I guess that too could be laughed at? But man was formed from just that (according to Genesis).

Yet....consider the elements contained in the human body and the earth and why we gain so much of what we need by eating foods grown in rich nutrient soils. We live off the earth and all things on it. From the biblical perspective, we were made from it, but had the spirit of God breathed into us! All things became animated/alive with a spirit inside flesh.

Rocks to men? How about earth material/dust to men? Whatever one believes, the process by which we believe it came about is a real dividing line. They believe there was a lengthy process of evolution from very simplistic beginnings. We believe in complete immediate formed creation.

We see the fossils and it looks more like spontaneous appearance of fully formed creatures, rather than a record of gradual evolutionary processes from simple life to properly formed creatures building up to show what we observe today. I have yet to see any evidence of this. Whether or not we know every species that's ever lived or which genus they belong to exactly, still doesn't remove the fact they're there, they're fully formed and recognisably so, and obviously functional to go with it (reproduction intact), reproducing very much after their own kind. Now whether their kind died out or not, is another story. There isn't any arguments about adaption/variation, since the information contained already allows for this.

We still need evidence of rocks (or mud) evolving either way and the fossil record does not seem to indicate such a process over time from such humble beginnings. I still stand by the fossil record showing spontaneous appearances of fully formed creatures that fits in perfectly with biblical creation. Doesn't matter what labels one throws on them. Whether they differ or they don't, where is the rocks/mud/minerals evolution process evidence?

You can find so-called simple celled life today (marine for example) and imagine it might have the ability to become a human being given the right this and the right that over millions and millions of years. Since when is imagining something evidence it ever happened? We can concoct all kinds of imagined scenarios, but we have yet to discover the evidence that this took place at all. Even scientific experiements in a lab to try and prove it possible, doesn't prove it happened and I've yet to see them achieve such a miraculous feat.

We require the evidence of rocks (or mud) evolving into human beings in the fossil record. Let's see simple life forms (of which numerous examples would be filling the fossil record if this were true) giving us a rich and abundent record of our evolutionary past. The vast time periods would allow for a literal museum of them, EASILY silencing all arguments to the contrary.