Evolution: Anyone care to Fill in the Huge Blank?, page 3


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reply posted on 15-8-2005 @ 08:33 AM by Evolution Cruncher

the thing is we can never take a bacteria or few elements and say 'this is what we evolved from', basically because we can't go back billions of years to see it in process. however, we can piece together other pieces of information, evidence and other things we 'know' to help prove evolution, and to help prove we did come from a few elements or bacteria. most of the time evidence for evolution is not accepted by religious people, in the same way they don't accept sea shells are on mount everest because at one point in time that part of everest was at sea level and was pushed up over millions of years, they believe it was because of the flood. that's two completly different ways of looking at evidence, which is exactly the same scenario for evolution.


mount everest is no where near the ocean. and the clam shells that are found on that mountain are huge, and they are petrified. rapid deposit of sediments would cause that and the only way for that to occur would be a flood. but being that the mountain is very far from the beach, makes it impossible for clams to find their way to the top of that mountain even if it did start off at sea level. that is more evidence for a flood rather than evolution of millions of years.


again with the faith and religious stuff, why?


you seem very puzzled about this.... its because it takes FAITH. there is no evidence for it at all. you are trying to erase the line between your interpretation and the facts. you cant do that.

EC

[edit on 15-8-2005 by Evolution Cruncher]


reply posted on 20-8-2005 @ 02:40 AM by edsinger
Originally posted by KidfingerI'll give it a shot. In the beginning, the earth was a hot and violent place. Electric storms, volcanic eruptions, high methane content in the air, quakes, asteroids and comets. It was just an all around hospitable place. Then in some soupy pool of hot mineral water, some lightening struck right in the middle. The reaction of the mineral water and electricity, backed by the methane components in the atmosphere, created a new molecule. An Amino Acid. That is your first instance of how life may have begun.

BUT, the process that life has come from is natural and scientifically explainable. I just think God sent the lightening bolt that started the chemical reaction for life




One classic experiment that is used to support the belief that life “built itself”, is an experiment by Stanley Miller in 1953. In this experiment sparks were discharged into an apparatus, which was circulating common gases. These gases reacted to form various organic products, which were collected and analyzed. The experiment succeeded in producing only a few of the 20 amino acids required by living cells. Yet the results have repeatedly been heralded as evidence that life could have arisen by itself. Furthermore, the dozens of major problems with this experiment as an explanation for the formation of life are seldom reported.¹

For instance, our early atmosphere was assumed to have no oxygen because this would stop amino acid formation. However, with no oxygen, there would be no ozone shield. With no ozone shield, life would also be impossible. Furthermore, oxidized rocks throughout the geologic record indicate that oxygen has always been present. In addition to this, the same gases that can react to form amino acids undergo known reactions in the presence of sunlight, which removes them from the atmosphere. The required gases would not have been around long enough for life to have developed! In addition, a cold trap was used to keep the reaction products from being destroyed as fast as they formed.

The biggest problem is that the amino acids formed in this experiment are always a 50/50 mixture of stereotypes (L and D forms). Stereotypes are like a drawer full of right-hand and left-hand gloves, identical in every way except a mirror image of each other. Life contains only L stereotypes of these randomly produced amino acids. Yet equal proportions of both types are always produced. How could the first cell have selected only L stereotypes from a random, equally reactive mixture? No answer to this has ever been found.


No Chance of Life by Chance


Well it goes back to what I learned in SETI, The odds of these first amino acids forming in the exact combination are 10^100th power or so, even if the universe was 100 billion years old, thats not enough time for it to occur by chance...

KF, you say maybe God tossed the magic bolt. Well thats a start so I guess you would believe in Intelligent Design then?
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