steve assures us with justifiably recognized religious fervour[snail]that" evolution explains all of life on earth...."
really?- it don't even explain how it got off the starting block!

Well I suppose I ought to congratulate Snail for getting into bed with pete (as well as talking franker and franker bollocks as time passes...) I possess no fervour in any regard you can conjure up, pete sweetum. Au contraire. I get in trouble here for being a little on the icy-cool side (though I have to strive to not be too Spock-like). I mean, even Bonkers Conkers has me smiling indulgently instead of getting me all aereated. Accusations of "religious fervour" levelled at thoroughly non-religious chappies such as yours truly have not only been comprehensively debunked on this website by far greater minds than yours (which is actually saying very little indeed, which is meant squarely as an insult to you, not them), but also make you look like a shagged-out, intellectually-defeated utter twat (which, of course, you are). Your own doing, tragically. Old boy, evolution does indeed explain all of life on earth in all its beauty and diversity, and if you or you quasi-religious chum Snail know of a better explanation, well let's be having it, as in piss or get off the pot innit. Incidentally, in order to save you time, I said "explanation", not "blind guess". And don't get overly smug about the origin of life. Whenever and wherever that happened, 'twas a prosaic and unassuming event, no different to any other event in the course of the development of life in all its beauty and complexity, and almost certainly was one that would yield to some sort of explanation along the lines of biological natural selection. I will not be hoodwinked by religious tossers such as your good self into believing that it was a "sacred moment". You feed on that stupid notion if you like, but I'd rather eat pasta.