<<It's a bigger leap of faith to
believe
everything just "happened", matter sprang from
non-matter,
life from non-life, than it is to believe in some
form
of Intelligent
Design.>>
Maybe. But
rejecting the life-from-non-life idea is
an example of the
logical fallacy known as
argument from incredulity: it
seems too amazing and too
far-out to _me_, therefore it
couldn't have happened.
And the fact is that matter comes
from non-matter
all the time: particle pair production
from
high-energy photons. Also, origin-of-life
researchers have
some plausible ideas about how the
first
self-replicating organic molecules could have developed on
early
Earth. I don't necessarily reject ID, but invoking
it
out of the argument from incredulity is not the
thing
to do.
Doug