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Why do you insist that science behave in an unscientific manner (e.g., accept claims without asking for proof, or accept a supernatural explanation for natural phenomenon)? Do you really hate science that much?

I do not hate science, but rather enjoy provable and repeatable science. However, the theory of evolution is neither provable or repeatable.

Here are some issues I have with the theory of evolution:
1. The creation of the universe
Evolution must start with the creation of the universe to be relevant. Most popular theories are based on a "Big Bang" or expanding universe premise. This theory states that there was some amount of super dense matter that imploded/exploded and began the universe. However, the First Law of Thermodynamics states that neither energy or matter can be created or destroyed (e=MC2). If e=MC2 is true, then where did the original matter come from? Did it just exist or was it created?

2. Gender
Assuming #1 doesn't matter, and evolutionary theory is true, where all living things started from single cell organisms that reproduced asexually, where did gender come from? If evolution takes the best traits of previous incarnations and passes them forward, why would something as inefficient as gender evolve?

Excerpt from

The Origin of Gender and Sexual Reproduction [Part I]
By Bert Thompson, Ph.D. and Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
Biology texts are quick to illustrate amoebas evolving into intermediate organisms, which then conveniently give rise to amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and, eventually, humans. Yet, interestingly, we never learn exactly when (or how!) independent male and female species "evolved." Somewhere along this evolutionary path, both males and females were required in order to ensure the procreation that was necessary to further the existence of a particular species. But how do evolutionists explain this? When pressed to answer questions such as, "Where did males and females actually come from?," or "What is the evolutionary origin of sex?," evolutionists become as silent as the tomb in which they have laid this perennial problem. How is it that, at one point in time, "nature" was able to evolve a female member of a species that produces eggs and is internally equipped to nourish a growing embryo, while at the same time evolving a male member that produces motile sperm cells? And, further, how is it that these gametes (eggs and sperm) conveniently "evolved" so that they each contain half the normal chromosome number of somatic (body) cells?

3. Fossil Records for all other species
Assuming all species evolved, shouldn't there be fossil records of the other animal's evolution?

4. Flowers
Assuming all vegetation as well as animals evolved, why do many plants require insects for pollination? Does this mean that all flowering plants evolved after insects appeared? If so, why evolve into such an inefficient type of reproduction?

These are some of many questions that I do not believe can be answered through evolutionist theory without some sort of leap of faith that 1. Matter existed for the Big Bang, 2. A male and female version of every species evolved at relatively the same time, 3. Fossils are too hard to find to prove everything, and 4. evolution doesn't always produce the most efficient species (Natural Selection). So by having faith in these things kind of turns evolution

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Or would that be Noah Webster, noted etymologist and namesake of dictionary publisher Merriam Webster?

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