@Leadfoot,
Your insistence at using industrial analogies is , of course, charming, but wrongedy wrong wrong. A senior in organic chemistry could recite the chains of events and environments that lead from Hydrocyanic acid, water and heat to stuff like dinitriles , ribonucleic acids , purines pyrimidines and RNA . All these can be produced in natural environments without labware.
Early life was more like round rocks rolling down a slope, not a Nova engine (the hardest thing for nature to assemble was somehow depositing and then rounding th rocks an then getting them in a high topographic point so they could roll down a slope). It demonstrated properties collectively exclusive to life but individually not unique to life.
I still say youve gotta read much more biochemistry for understanding before youre able to intelligently dismiss self-organization of organic compounds , polymers and molecular engines.
There are several hundred compounds of double nd triple bonded carbon that duplicate crystal structures of helices and are repeatable with unique crystal terminations with phosphate salts. All these only occur at the steam vent mouth of old coal mine adites where spontaneous combustion has cause mine fires. These complex organic minerals are purines and pyrimidines with excess phosphoric and sulfitic compounds and ONLY occur in these unique environments that had never occured before coal mines opened the subsurface up to the atmosphere.
This is all a separate but interesting subject than evolution. Evolution is well documented as an adaptive or populational driven sequence of change to life on arth. "following rules of intelligent design" is , to me, not revealed at all, its a worldview not an evidence driven theory.
Creation of life, as a first event that separates biology from everything else, is still a process of much study and debate. Id rather this not be worldview driven either. Its hard to explain when the investigations are hard underway.
F I were you though, I would try to keep my mind more open.
YOU claim the same "worldview" infects my thinking too. That may be true but its only because Ive seen nothing other than stuff like your "Reverend Paley argument," your " Our Non presecence at birth pecludes us from understanding anything" or the ever loving,"life is too complicated to have been done without a esigner"
Id listen if some evidence were available to at least make me stop and reassess my own "worldview"
