(Barbarian notes that evolutionary theory isn't about the origin of life)
Name me one respected evolutionary biologist who doesn't believe in common descent and that the first form of life didn't come about by natural means.
Darwin, for example, suggested that God did it. But of course, he wasn't aware of many things we know now, and it appears from the evidence that God did use nature to produce life, as He says in Genesis.
(Barbarian notes that evolutionary theory and common descent aren't about the origin of life)
Ah... Good ol' semantics...
Perhaps you don't know what "semantics" means. You assumed that evolutionary theory makes some claims about the origin of life. It doesn't. That's a simple misconception, not a semantic error.
Twisting words and such. In my first post in this thread, I mentioned origins. That means where we came from. Evolution/common descent are about where we came from and how.
No. It's about how living populations change over time. Nothing about he origin of life. If you doubt this, look up the four principles of Darwin's theory and show us. Or, show us how the Modern Synthesis made claims about the origin of life. It's just not there. Mostly, because it doesn't matter how the first organisms came about. Darwin's suggestion that God just did it works as well as abiogenesis.
So is the "birds and bees" talk you had with your children. It just depends on how far back you want to go.
No. It depends on what the theory is about. That's how it works.
Do you want to start with mom and dad or do you want to start with how the first cell was made, or do you want to start somewhere else?
That's not evolutionary theory. It's important for you to understand what the theory is about, if you want to refute it.
When I spoke of origins, I was talking about where both human beings and other life we have today came from. According to the theory of evolution/common descent (which are inseparable) humans descended from non-humans.
That's not about the origin of life, either.
According to the biblical account, today's humans descended from the first human, who was created and did not descend from any non-human life form.
But Genesis doesn't say that, does it? You've added that to scripture, which is never a good idea.
That's where the disagreement is.
Yep.