Originally Posted by Suburbanite

i find that evolution is something a good many christians are unable to fully grasp. i'd like to spend this thread answering any of the questions, or as your pastor called them, proofs against evolution. I'd like to lay to rest any and all failures to comprehend this rather brilliant yet obvious understanding of the world. This tread is NOT about creationism or theology, i don't care what the Bible says, so don't post it. This is purely about biology and physics.

Let me start my pointing out two of the most common misunderstanding. Some christians ask questions about the intentionality of evolution. They talk about it as if it had an intention to create life. It is without motivation, it is simple physical inertia, with no plan. They then ask, how then can you explain the intricacies of say life. Evolution does this fully by explaining the highly idiosyncratic steps required to take place before we come to any "point" or "level" in evolution. Evolution didn't mean to create life, evolution didn't have to happen this way at all, there is no necessary condition for life known to us, the list could be infinite.
the second misunderstanding come from people who seem to romanticize its complexity to a point beyond what it is. They ask questions as if the answers weren't profoundly obvious. "How can evolution account for the complexity of life? It must have a creator." This is a false wrung on a ladder to nowhere. Evolution IS that explanation of how things happen without a creator. We've seen it, its witness-able within a life time. We've recorded data on larger evolutionary processes spanning hundreds of year with written and recorded data. We have remnants of animal which we no longer see living yet distinctly resemble animals alive now.
Please, ask, or argue, away!