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That sounds like you are going on a bit of... faith?
The fact is, there has never been any real science, that is the gathering of data through observation (which we can do) and then of course experimentation (which they have not be able to do) yet somehow they have arrived at a theory that they claim is fact. The theory of evolution somehow managed to skip the part of science where we experiment before we actually devise a theory. So in turn, evolution is actually a philosophy or a world view. Scientists have been able to observe and experiment with micro-evolution, or horizontal evolution. The best example of that is the fruit fly. Scientists have been experimenting and manipulating the DNA of fruit flies. They have managed to make all sorts of changes to the fruit flies, but they have not been able to create a new species. So again, horizontal but not vertical.
After being around for 150 years, with so much information and books on the subject. You still have people who have so little understanding of it that they should probably refrain from mentioning it.
What Zoken is mentioning is abiogenesis, which is only a theory for how life began, and not a theory for evolution. Evolution merely states that once life began, however that may have been, it evolved.
What people have failed to realize with evolution is that its full of holes. Ideas and 'discoveries' are forced into the model even if research and evidence screams that it doesn't fit.
I will leave you with a quote from a website that I am sure a lot of you will just simply dismiss, but I urge you to go visit it with an open mind. There are many real scientists out there, secular and creationist, who do not subscribe to the dogmatic views of evolutionary philosophy.
Take what you will from that. But, I really urge some people to be a little more skeptical about evolution. I understand that skepticism that is directed towards religion, but it seems that a lot of folks are accepting evolution just as blindly as they claim others are accepting religion. So I guess what I am saying is... practice what you preach!
On a whim, I checked out their SLoT page. It's a good way to establish if the site claiming to refute Evolution has some credibility. Unfortunately, nothing new here. They create a straw man of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and apply the straw man to evolution.
Let me be perfectly frank on this. ANYONE, no matter their credentials, who starts arguing that Evolution violates SLoT has no idea what they're talking about. Read this to clear it up.
What you've got here is a nice looking site that made by someone with an agenda. His agenda is replacing Evolution with creationism, but I notice that he doesn't argue for the scientific validity of what he proposes, which is a typical Creationist tactic.
Every single objection can be found here. Mr. Yahya brings nothing new to the table.