That's only number 5 on the list of:
The top 10 signs that you don’t understand evolution at all
5. You think it has anything to do with the origin of life, let alone the origins of the universe.
This is like the king of all straw men, and it’s extremely common. It involves something like the thoroughly debunked theory of
spontaneous generation (the idea that life can come from non-life under normal circumstances) being used as evidence against the theory of evolution. Hear me on this, guys:
Evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life. The theory of evolution
presumes the existence of life, and it is a useless concept in the absence of life. And, as such, scientists’ current confusion over how life started has no impact whatsoever on the validity of the theory of evolution. In the same way,
Newtonian physics presumes the existence of the universe; Newton did not have to explain how the universe came to be in order to understand how it operates now. Evolution is no different.
I’ve even seen people use things like stars and planets, or the supposed implausibility of the Big Bang theory (the
cosmological model, not the
show), to try and cast aspersions on the prevailing theory of how biological organisms on earth have come to look the way they do. These attempts are so nonsensical that I hope I don’t really need to address them here.
Step right up and try again, see if you can be even dumber and get higher on the list.