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Author Topic:   Evolution & Abiogenesis were originally one subject.
ringo
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Message 70 of 140 (568781)
07-17-2010 6:57 PM
Reply to: Message 67 by Buzsaw
07-14-2010 11:02 PM


Re: evolution & abio
What Venter has proved is that to assemble the first simple DNA for the first cell, you need a team of highly skilled scientists, or just one who knows it all!
You have it backwards. Complex chemical reactions happen every day, all by themselves, without any intervention by scientists. It takes a team of highly skilled scientists to figure out how they work.
By analogy, it took man decades to figure out how birds fly but birds have been doing it for millenia, not caring whether we understood or not.

I rode off into the sunset, went all the way around the world and now I\'m back where I started.

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ringo
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Message 104 of 140 (569042)
07-19-2010 9:46 PM
Reply to: Message 100 by marc9000
07-19-2010 8:42 PM


Re: intuitive linking
marc9000 writes:
It didn’t have to be a chemical origin, it could have been an instant origin, instant chemicals, with no rearrangement involved. An instant origin could have nothing to do with gradual chemical changes.
That's a bizarre statement. You have trouble accepting the gradual rearrangement of chemical elements - which we see every day - and you propose as an alternate mechanism an instant magic poof from nothing? That's like saying you don't believe cars are made in Detroit but you do believe the Easter Bunny leaves them in your driveway. How do you expect anybody to take you seriously after that?

I rode off into the sunset, went all the way around the world and now I\'m back where I started.

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