Gil Grissom explains why we believe...

    What they got right, we do know a lot more lately about chemistry, biology, and how life maintains itself. It very much appears that RNA/DNA strings of considerable complexity are essential to life beginning and maintaining itself. Complex as they are, they are known to be made of a few rather simple structures in a large variety of patterns and assemblies. We ought then be able to construct scenarios that duplicate conditions immediately before in order to observe the process of the very beginning of some life or other.

    What they got wrong, we cannot. Test after test, decade after decade, the shorter yet substantial RNA chains do not extend, even if the variety of them should be adequate. Although copying can and does occur because of the way the electrical and structural components fit, that does not translate to extending the chains. That appears subject to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. It doesn't require waiting millions of years. The extension of the chains needs to begin today or it will never go anywhere.

    If you choose to refuse to believe me, consider the reason you do. I suggested in that thread you choose not to read that the reason is your dread fear of the unknown. You would be torn from the comfort of many of your "facts" and thrust into a world of opinions where you would have to compete on equal footing with the other opinions.  That would not mean the end of facts.  It would mean the disregard of the fake ones.  Acknowledging an agency not found in nature won't give religious people more power, unless they can make it do their bidding, which they can't.  Acknowledging an agency not found in nature might well require power of whomever to depend more on persuasion and less on coercion.