Biologists and chemists on the verge of creating life from non-living matter

Let me get this straight, God is an old mudhole?

No wonder he screwed the pooch on the whole good & evil thing.

[Sternwallow]

Creationist Score Card
1) No humans, animals, rocks or worlds existed before 8000 B.C.E. BAZZZZZ-wrong
2) No humans existed before Adam BAZZZZZ-wrong
3) No humans existed outside Eden's garden BAZZZZZ-wrong
4) The entire world was a roughly (and generously) 1000 mile radius disk centered on Messopotamia BAZZZZZ-wrong
5) The stars were small enough to hold in one hand BAZZZZZ-wrong
6) The Sun and Moon were lamps moving inside the dome of firmament BAZZZZZ-wrong
7) All creatures were created within one week of 24-hour days BAZZZZZ-wrong
8) Humans and animals were separate unrelated creations BAZZZZZ-wrong
9) All human history and civilizations were simultaneously wiped out by a world-wide flood BAZZZZZ-wrong
10) Planets are wandering stars BAZZZZZ-wrong
11) Sun moves across the sky, tunnels through the Earth and moves across again the next day BAZZZZZ-wrong
12) Sun stops and waits for righteous battles to finish BAZZZZZ-wrong
13) Moral teaching comes from God, secondarily through His book and thirdly through clergy who interpret the book to us BAZZZZZ-wrong
14) The Earth is the only world BAZZZZZ-wrong
15) The Sun is immeasurably greater than any star BAZZZZZ-wrong
16) There can be no life anywhere but on Earth BAZZZZZ-wrong
17) Ours is the only Solar system so there are no other planets BAZZZZZ-wrong
18) Eden is the center of the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
19) Mesopotamia is the center of the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
20) The Middle-east is the center of the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
21) Earth is the center of the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
22) The Sun is the center of the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
23) The Milky Way galaxy is the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
24) The Milky Way galaxy is the center of the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
25) There is a center of the universe BAZZZZZ-wrong
26) "Anything that began must have been caused" BAZZZZZ-wrong
27) "Whatever caused the universe must be kind and loving and caring and cute and cuddly and just and interesting..." BAZZZZZ-wrong
28) The Universe was designed to be friendly to life through careful choice of critical parameters BAZZZZZ-wrong
29) The "Goldilocks Zone" was defined to enable life BAZZZZZ-wrong
30) The Earth is ideal for life in general and human life in particular BAZZZZZ-wrong

[Sternwallow]

simpledon wrote

Let me get this straight, God is an old mudhole?

No wonder he screwed the pooch on the whole good & evil thing.

I would instead say God could have been an old mudhole.