why not just say it was designed and go back to the caves?...Quote from pattersb:
Anyone care to explain the scientific theories regarding the origins of the DNA Double - Helix? Anyone care to explain the scientific methods employed to duplicate the miraculous manner in which the ATG nucleotides so elegantly fell into place for the first time? What came before the "Big Bang", let's see some data on that!

re the big bang, it wldn't surprise me if it gets supplanted soon enough by one of the alternative scientific theories available, that effectively deal away with the initial singularity... same as how we dealt away with newton's gravity singularity when distances approach 0...
quite a few good candidates out there fyi... eternal inflation, quintessence, ekpyrotic, cyclic universe and just for fun: H6D ... google them between 2 prayers mate...
i think Nik meant to say insipidious, ie insipid AND insidious in nonlinear english, but he is too much of a purist for such neologisms...While 80%+ of the population in this country believes in a "god", the people who reference "Plagues" and "the Dark Ages" prefer to portray this as a movement strictly amongst the right-wing, "insipid", Christians fanatics.
faith doesn't require a creator... faith doesn't equate believing in a creator... wisen up pal! your problem if you can only live by simplistic radical christian creeds...These same 80%+ who believe in a creator, are forced to send their children to public schools, already saturated with progressive-liberals who are all too eager to undermine people's beliefs in god. These same elitist-progressive-liberals VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE school-vouchers which would allow parents the opportunity to send their children to religious schools!