Quote Originally Posted by PrincessFluttershy View Post
For evolution, I believe a great deal of it is true. Certainly us evolving from a more primitive man is extremely plausible, but the hard part to comprehend is how a single atom could grow or combine to the point of creating any species which can further grow. Closest i can think of is something like Spore (evolving into an animal from a fuckin protozoa) but shit, it's just hard to picture the process.
It's not a single atom. It's molecules. The same way viruses, which are merely RNA, can spontaneously combine and replicate when the elements that make up RNA are mixed together.

The smallest of organisms/life/cells/replicating-collections-of-atoms are not atoms themselves. They are made up of a lot of atoms. It's never been something that happens on a single-atom scale. Think more like water. H2O. Three atoms behaving as one molecule. It was a collection of molecules [which you should understand we already had in abundance; the earth was covered with water and minerals and salts and what-have-you] that grew/combined.