Terrence, you have a religion called Evolution. There's no proof for your convictions, it's just a faith that evidence contradicts. Consider this comment from Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 13, 348 by K. Dose (1988):
"More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origins of life on Earth rather than to its solution. At present all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance."
Translation: "We believe in ignorance."
Life supposedly originated in the the sea, which became a "prebiotic soup" as solar radiation produced amino acids from Earth's early atmosphere, which then precipitated into the ocean. The amino acids then joined to become peptides, polypeptides, finally proteins.
The major problem in linking amino acids together is that it involves the removal of a molecule of water for each amino acid joined to the polypeptide. Water inhibits the process, and dissolves amino acids.
The doctrine of a "warm soupy prebiotic sea" is an unscientific myth.
Synthesis of amino acids into proteins in the ocean is impossible, since they're water. Thermodynamic considerations show they would break down quicker than they formed.
But you believe it anyway. Unless you prove the above is wrong you have a religion with Darwin as God; and hopeless. Wrote Richard Leakey: "Perhaps the human species is just a ghastly biological blunder."
Though Evolution gives no hope it offers a great benediction, defined by Aldous Huxley:
"I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none ... the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom." REPORT 6/1966 page 19.
Probably you and your girlfriend agree with that, Terrence.
Don
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