"This is no explanation but we may now narrow your objection down to this question.
OK. Let me expand on my answer a little. Evolutionary theory says that life arose by purely naturalistic processes and that by these same processes all life on this planet can be accounted for. *I have heard no explanation that even comes close to explaining how this could happen by natural processes?* The natural selection/mutation method just does not persuade me at all. Life is too complex. If evolution is a process then evolutionists better have a good explanation of what this process is. They don't. But they still religiously cling onto their theory proclaiming it as 'fact' and presenting it to the public as such.
"could have produced the evidence we find all around us?
could have produced the evidence for what? Evolution? The evidence I have seen for evolution so far does not presuade me at all, the opposite in fact. And I would agrue that the same data evolutionists use to support thier theory can be interpreted in a much better way that agrees with the presupposition of a Creator.
"Evolution theory deals with the means by which life has changed since life began.How life began is a study known as abiogenesis. How the universe began is a part of the field known as cosmology."
Yes but the point is is that all life (even how it originated) and the entire universe is to be explained by purely naturalistic processes in an evolutionist world view. Evolution is not just about how life has developed on this planet since it arose. Evolutionary thought saturates every scientific disipline. Not just biology. It is a belief based on a philosophy that everything must be explained by naturalistic/mechanistic processes.
"I am an atheist and have no God to go by but,as some people here will attest,belief in God and an understanding of the processes of evolution as we model it in evolutionary theory are not mutually exdclusive."
I understand some people have this view but I do not agree with it.
Regards
Martin Paul.
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