WhiteRoseTiger:
1. I am aware of this, it simply corroborates the theory of evolution, I don't think it contradicts my points (correct me if I'm wrong).
2. Sorry, I'd assumed that was a given!
3. I'm not necessarily saying that we have to attribute it to God, but currently, thats a potential theory. To my knowledge (and I may not be up to date) there is no evidence to support any theories for the cause of the Big Bang, so a god is one theory, but equally there are other theories. You can't rule out any until they are proven false. So I don't singly believe in God as the cause of the Big Bang, but scientifically I can't rule it out either.
4. All I'm saying with abiogenesis, is that there is a point where the theory fails to explain life. We go from having complex organic molecules, to having life, with self-replication. These two developments were probably separate (as in occasionally molecules combined by some method to form something we would class as living, and maybe only once did this occur in such a way to have self-replicating properties, and survive long enough to produce a decent population size). God is just one explanation for how this occurs, but that doesn't mean I believe in an all powerful creator, its about as likely as some sort of time travel induced paradox (something goes back and plants life) or that something from another universe caused abiogenesis.
Good points though! But basically I'm only saying I can't rule out God because there is no evidence in the history of time (and pre-time, seeing as it is thought that the big bang created time) that suggests that a god does not exist, and this won't happen until we have a complete understanding of the past. God is just one explanation, but I'm not saying I believe it more than any other theory. The main reason I mentioned God was simply as this debate concerns religion, and God is the most relevant theory to mention in this context.
Points 1 and 2 I was just saying you should have included them in your argument, not that they go against what you said!
Point 3, of course nobody can rule out A God. What can be ruled out is the Christian version of God (i.e. One that created the world in 6 days, etc, and answers ANY prayer).
Point 4, not really. How can a theory on the origins of life fail to explain the origins of life? We know that amino acids form in space and on Earth, that the earliest life forms were single-celled organisms, that OIL can navigate a maze under certain conditions, RNA (predecessor to DNA) can form naturally, etc. And after all, all this talk of non-life to life makes no sense. DNA is just a chemical, and isn't a living thing...
