reply to post by schrodingers dog
Science made me a creationist not fear.If you are so brave and so wise research this site and show me scientifically the proof where billions of years
go by and lightning strikes and "poof" there is life, this is not very scientific.
Fry, a philosopher of science, in her book which explains the work of each of the leading origin of life researchers makes this clear:
“… origin of life research consists in looking for a naturalistic alternative to the idea of the creation of life by a designer.”{Iris Fry, The
Emergence of Life on Earth, 2000, p. 184}
Irreducible complexity
Fry also responds to the very influential book, Darwin's Black Box, written by Michael Behe, a professor of biochemistry who makes the point that
even the most simple cell could not function without a certain number of essential parts. He illustrates with the common mouse trap, the kind with a
base, a wire that snaps down, etc. If even one part of a mousetrap is taken away it will not catch mice. Behe calls this “irreducible complexity.”
Whether it is a mouse trap or a cell, things that are irreducibly complex will not work at all unless a number of essential parts are working
together.
Fry calls the search for a naturalistic explanation of life an attempt to “reduce the irreducibly complex.” She says first life researchers are
attempting to find some way in which a cell could have functioned without the irreducible complexity that could only have been brought about by
intelligent design. Each researcher has hoped thathis idea would succeed, but none has. Why not?
In order to live, a cell must at least have parts that will let it:
•Separate itself from the water around it,
•Take in food, and expel wastes,
•Use food to make the energy and materials that the cell needs to do its work,
•Make the working parts that permit the cell to do these things,
•Contain the information that directs these activities,
•Reproduce.
A first cell could not have lived to produce a second cell if it lacked the parts necessary to make possible even one of these abilities! This is
irreducible complexity, and it is evidence of design. Many dead cells, however, have the necessary parts. For a cell to live, life is also necessary.
My question to Fry and to the first life researchers, each with his doctor’s degrees, standing as it were on the shoulders of the scientists who
came before him is: “If after many more years of accumulating knowledge and ability, some brilliant scientist succeeds in creating life in a test
tube, will he have shown that life just popped up without an intelligent creator?”
Research and then make up your mind.From what I have seen so far on this thread I just dont see the science against intelligent design......yes that
means a creator.I am debating here.Those who say "poof" it just happened on its own show me your proof and explain to me where the info in dna comes
from.That is just one of the steps.Lets see some "science" on where this info came from.
