I've been reading Hazen's Gen-e-sis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). I haven't finished it yet, but it led me to appreciate this post and this diagram more. Isn't that the truth? What creationists see as a weakness, that we have so many ideas (and so many gaps), we see as a strength. I thought the creationist idea of abiogenesis was "Dirt ---> Man". Back when I studied chemistry, I used to have nightmares about carbon and carbon chains. Literally. Creationists just..