Was at least the first life form created?

[Eilonnwy]

But what if creation is what really happened? Do you ever consider that it might be what really happened, i.e., the absolute truth? I doubt it.

Of course I don't, because it's not what is proven to be true. Evolution is a fact. However, if the scientific method proved creation, I would put my money there. Just because I don't know with absolute certainty that evolution is true, does not change it's status in science as a well established theory that beautifully explains how we came to be. I don't waste my time on thinking, "Well what if Zeus exists?" Or "What if gnomes exist?" And I'm willing to bet you don't either. If you're trying to say that my preconceptions exclude creationism the way religion excludes evolution, you're wrong. Those who accept creationism despite all the evidence are unconcerned with facts. Meanwhile, science clearly lays out a path for creationism to become a true theory. It doesn't meet the rigors of science.

Remember the scientific method can only provide models that will provide a naturalistic explanation for something. If you automatically rule out a "supernatural" explanation, you may be ruling out the real answer, i.e. the absolute truth. So while common descent does provide a naturalistic model that explains a lot of what we observe, not every observation fits well with common descent and that may not be how things really happened. I actually find it laughable for anyone (scientists included) to think that the scientific method can provide any more than a guess at what happened in the unobserved past, let alone millions or billions of years ago. I guess I think the scientific method is a lot more limited than you do.

So how does a crime scene investigator find out the cause of death and figure out who the murderer is? Is science perfect? No. Is it the best way to find out what is most likely to be true about our world? Yes. Just because you can't imagine how science can reliably understand the past does not make it impossible. You're arguing from personal incredulity.

Your insistence that there is an absolute truth is absurd. There is no method of determining what is absolutely true, religion most certainly does not do it. Science, however, gets us as close to the truth as possible and it works. The best and strongest part about science is when a preconceived notion is proven to be false, it adjusts it's thinking. This is science's strongest characteristics, yet people consistently misconstrue it as a weak a point. I repeat, it's absurd.

I also do not think science has nothing to say on the supernatural. If the supernatural is said to be the explanation for a natural phenomena, we can study it. I do not accept this "non-overlapping magisteria" crap.

People are so obsessed with thinking they know the absolute truth, and religion only fools you into thinking it's possible and you have it.