Off-Topic: Evolution Caught in the Act

I didn't jump to any conclusions, that's why I ask the clarifying questions.

You mentioned to me the other day on Xfire that a quote from your father that influenced you with regards to religion was something like "if you found a watch on the floor you wouldn't assume it had all randomly assembled itself, so why would man be any different" so that led me to believe you would deny evolution.
Are you instead of the opinion that god created us via evolution? Or do you make the distinction between evolution and abiogenesis? Or what?

I don't see the connection between the statements "some things have yet to be explained" and "I believe in a creator that gives us a push every now and again".
Where does the notion of a creator come from for you?

from my father to answer the last q, he has a way of portraying things, without being a preacher, he sits in the middle of the ground, and has an opinion of both a creator, and none, and i chose to believe there has to be something out there, something bigger than us, that helps us along the way sometimes.

b0n3z:the way i see it, until we can somehow travel back to the time of these things, they cannot truly be explained. I might not be the shrpest tool in the shed, and i dont pretend to comprehend things i dont. Im not going to try and come up with a scientific explanation for how an amino acid can be compiled (which is like hitting the jackpot on a slot machine with 36 slots)

Actually amino acids have assembled themselves in labs plenty of times, it's a simple experiment. The whole slot machine thing is just something someone said once that stuck in people's minds; a meaningless meme.

b0n3z:I think we must have had some help along the way

That statement isn't consistent with itself, though. You're saying that only consciousness can create consciousness but that creates an infinite loop of questions; who created our creator? who created our creator's creator? who created our creator's creator's creator? and it never ends.
If you then assert that at some point along the line of creators one had always existed, then you've invalidated the initial statement that only consciousness can create consciousness.

It's one thing to believe, as I do, that a lot remains to be explained in the universe. It's a huge jump from there to believe in something like a creator, or anything specific.
Isn't it more honest to wait until there are answers to questions instead of just guessing?

a great point, and you have just totally destroyed mine (asshole) as i said, im not exactly completely learned in these areas, i only have what i have learnt, or have read.
I have never actually considered the paradox of consciousness creating consciousness, its definitely something to consider.

Perhaps we are a petri dish experiment for some form of alien race? (kinda like the whole marble thing from MIB) Or perhaps we are all living in a VR simulation (matrix) or maybe we are doomed to have an "afterlife" to which we truly believe in (Discworld - Terry Pratchett)

We all have our own opinions and beliefs, and none can truly out rank another (unless you are a pompous asshole and think you know everything, not saying YOU are, but there are such people alive)

And with acids assembling themselves in experiments, isnt it a controlled environment? Is it truly accurate without having the EXACT conditions of the original primordial soup? It was to my understanding, that even such a small thing as 0.5 of a Centigrade degree in temperature can have amazing catalyst qualities to such acids....

Hmmmmm