Here’s an example. Punctuated Evolution. A deus ex machina created by evolutionists to explain how so much mutation can occur [in the actually short] period of 4 billion years. And also to explain the sudden burst of diverse lifeforms in a theory whose bedrock is gradual change due to environmental factors.

Yes, it IS a scientific cheat to put in a stipulation that only occurs when convenient, doesn’t follow the tenet of the original theory, and only basis is that’s how we keep the theory intact.

It’s like when someone asks me “what time is it” and I say “1 o’clock” though it’s really 12:50 or 5 after…nobody thinks I’m lying, deceiving them, or being unscientific: I’m just not being anally precise: the same goes for that stupd, over-trumped, pathetic example that people who have absolutely no cultural awareness of the text they’re reading bring-up all the time. Argghh!!

In your dreams.

All the elements necessary for agriculture are not in abundance. Most importantly, there is no nitrogen.
The dead zones on Earths highest mountains are like tropical rain forests compared to Mars.

The soils also appear to contain toxic super oxidizers. Nor will “inflatable greenhouses” achieve the partial pressures of CO2 needed to make plant photosythesis work, nor nitrogen for protein production even if you import your N2 from Earth at 100,000 dollars a pound. And, with 120 DEG below zero nights since the Martian ATM is too thin to retain substantial day-cycle solar heat, the cost of heating your greenhouses is prohibitive even without factoring in the damage regular radiation, intense UV radiation, and damage from irregular solar flares will inflict on plant life.

Read “The Blind Watchmaker” – Richard Dawkins…
In fact read his book “The God Delusion” too.

I have read both of these, as well as I have read the bible. I think that to fully understand the question, and come to your own individual answer you need to read all three of those books, not just one or two of them.

Quite wrong. Read “The Case for Mars” by Robert Zubrin, who goes into this in detail. His Mars Direct plan, endorsed by Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, and Buzz Aldrin, is so compelling that NASA eventually adopted its essentials. The current NASA administrator is a former board member of Zubrin’s Mars Society.

Uniquely in the solar system, you can grow crops on Mars in cheap inflatable greenhouses. With a 24 hour day/night cycle (no need for expensive artificial light), a carbon dioxide atmosphere (slightly concentrated and pressurized if necessary), and all the elements necessary for agriculture in abundance, Mars can support a permanent human population.