Debate: DO YOU SUPPORT PRESIDENT OBAMAS DECISION TO BUILD A MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO
Side: No

What does germ theory or microbiology have to do with the origin of life or the origin of the universe.If you tell a person who studies microbiology that germ theory is only a theory and that curses and sin cause disease too, he will tell you that the scientific community has ruled that out and agrees that germ theory is the only working model. The matter is closed.In other words, you a non-expert are questioning a scientific consensus on biology, a consensus of experts who have decades of experience on the field and have published ground-breaking articles and research. You are telling them "no you're wrong and arrogant because this fringe group who doesn't play by the rules of science says god did it."You don't realise it but that is what you are saying. ID is "god did it" under heavy jargon and cloak of science-sounding arguments. However it isn't science. Science follows strict rules: gather objective data, find a model that explains it, test the model, and submit for review by others. It must be falsifiable and therefore cannot reference the supernatural or gods, because those cannot be falsified or tested. It must explain all the relevant data and evidence.In other words, even if Intelligent Design were a scientific theory, it would have to look like evolution because the evidence says that we evolved over millions of years. It cannot merely ignore this and pretend the evidence doesn't exist.I'm sure you're well versed in telling people 'Sit down I am the authority on this subject' but you really need to realize that 'NONE' have authority on the subject of origins. This is really an argument from ignorance. You don't know how one could explain our origins, and can't imagine how it could be researched accurately, so you assume that it cannot be.The simple fact is that we deduce our origins through gene flow, and by performing experiments that mimic early earth conditions, to determine how life could form.You keep calling ID pseudoscience, where is the ground breaking evidence to the contrary of ID.http://www.pnas.org/content/96/18/10254.long This is just the tip of the iceberg, try looking at related abstracts:http://www.pnas.org/search?tocsectionid=Evolution&sortspec=date&submit=Submit In other words, we evolved from lower primates. Evolution accounts for our origins.What is your theory, that particles just magically started spinning the right way and Bam, life?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life#Current_models You need to educate yourself. Instead of thinking "I can't imagine how" ask "How could it?"Where is your proof?All life shares the same nucleotides, all life shares a very similar genetic code, RNA-enzymes can function as an intermediate for early replication, protocells called protobionts exist, which suggest what an early cell might look like, experiments on replicating early earth conditions demonstrated that nucleotides and amino acids could form.You take your expert status to levels where nobody is an expert. When it comes to origins all of us are limited to analyzing the different variables and making an intelligent guess on what makes most sense to us. You need to give it a rest on 'peer reviews' and 'the experts' on this subjectAgain, just because you can't understand how this type of research works and you are ignorant of the advances made, doesn't change the fact that we have learned a lot.