I'll repeat, evolutionary theory has nothing to do with the origin of life! You can sum evolution up to "change over time". Populations of organisms change over time, we observe this, and we notice they do it in several ways.
Evolutionary theory has been used to attempt to explain a possible natural origin for life. That doesn't make the two the same thing.
Nowonmai: "There is no 'design'. IF there was, why the hell do avocados have such HUGE seeds, but the biggest trees have seeds the size of a grain of sand?"
Avocados have very appealing flesh to wild animals due to the amount of fat they contain. It is believed that dinosaurs were the agents of dispersal for avocados in the past. Now an occasional jaguar will pass an avocado seed. As for the trees with teeny seeds, they probably either drop the seeds in a sort of bank to grow when the tree dies, or they have wind dispersal of the seeds.
Not that I'm trying to argue for design, of course, but even though evolution is directionless, that doesn't preclude there being reasons for things.
Tradeoffs seem a better choice for argument against design, IMO (I may be wrong, but wouldn't it make sense that a designer could make everything truly perfect?). From an earlier post of mine referring to cheetahs:
"Intelligence has nothing to do with it. Why should an intelligently designed predator have to stop pursuing its prey because it's too hot? Why should an intelligently designed predator have to leave its kill for kleptoparasites because it has given up all its fighting abilities for pure speed? Why should an intelligently designed predator chase one particular prey animal single-mindedly while it runs past others of the same species that escape simply by standing still? Why should an intelligently designed predator have to give up climbing ability for speed? Why should an intelligently designed predator have to always use a suffocating throat bite because its canines are miniscule and incapable of severing the spinal cord of all but the smallest animals? Why should an intelligently designed predator have to abandon its young because it only had one or two and the tradeoffs the mother has to make for the young isn't worth it until she bears at least 3?"
