[quote=DarkwolfX37] Life comes from non life literally every day. Cambrian explosion: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/4/l_034_02.html http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VIIB1cCambrian.shtmlWhat you're doing is literally the exact same as throwing out most of the pieces of a puzzle, putting the rest into place, and then claiming that the puzzle can't possibly form what it says it does on the box because by looking at these pieces, it's not possible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/extinction_eventsYour flood is not only impossible, but is irrelevant. That implies a false scenario. In order for that statement to be correct, there would have to be one set of 18 in existence, rather than the countless individual ones that would form a more accurate scenario. [/quote] You don't seem to understand what scientists mean when they say "life coming from non-life". When we say non-life, we mean something that is not living. A usual living thing has some kind of nervous system, in the case of a single-cellular organism, its nucleus, and a way to produce food for itself. A living, "thinking", "eating" thing cannot come from something that isn't "thinking" or "eating". That's [i]extremely[/i] oversimplified, but I'm proving a point. According to your first article: "Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification occurred, with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion: the changes seems to have happened in a range of about 30 million years, and some stages took 5 to 10 million years. " Within 40 million years, we get [i]nearly every single lineage of animals living today.[/i] However, for the next 500 million years, we don't see this kind of diversification ever again. It's very, very fishy. About your puzzle analogy: Right now we're just examining the life from non-life puzzle, which is a puzzle in itself. In order to explain how life came about from non-life, we have to explain: How the countless amino acids were formed and brought together. How these amino acids were all only right or left-handed. How these amino acids formed into the 16 basic proteins for life, which requires: (How the amino acids overcame the 1/4,5 quadrillion odds to form the [i]first[/i] protein. How they then overcame those odds countlessly more times to form all the other proteins. How they did all of this at once so as not to poison the life that would result.) How all these proteins arranged into the various organelles needed to form a working cell. How every single one of the processes just described happened at virtually the same time so as not to poison the life that would result with any leftover amino acids and proteins. How this cell survived the environment that would poison it. To your final statement: That was a time analogy to show the astronomical odds.