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A famous Russian scientist and professor...stated that living organisms cannot be a result of random mutations and natural selection...Simple bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes and have many hundreds of different proteins, each containing 20 types of amino acids arranged in chains that might be several hundred long. For bacteria to evolve by beneficial mutations one at a time would take much, much longer than three or four billion years, the time that many scientists believe life has existed on earth.
Originally posted by billy197300
Hence the word "theory". It's just a scientific guess at how things came to be just like all the religious stories about creation. Nobody really knows, all we can do is make our best guess.
Arguments that should be avoided ...
1. Evolution is just a theory. (“Theory” has a stronger meaning in scientific fields than in general usage; it is better to say that evolution is just a hypothesis or one model to explain the untestable past.)
What if scientists know it's impossible
but having done the research based on what this scientist said, said that the currently taught theory of evolution is impossible given the time lines. It defied basic math and probability variables.
It's just a scientific guess at how things came to be
Nobody really knows, all we can do is make our best guess.
But truthfully, I have to admit to being a complete and utter atheist. I've long held the belief that the universe gets along quite nicely without having to invoke deities of one kind or another. This obviously means that I'm not a proponent of creationism or intelligent design if believing in either of them requires a belief in a deity.
Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
Simple bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes and have many hundreds of different proteins, each containing 20 types of amino acids arranged in chains that might be several hundred long. For bacteria to evolve by beneficial mutations one at a time would take much, much longer than three or four billion years, the time that many scientists believe life has existed on earth.
Originally posted by rhinoceros
Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
Simple bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes and have many hundreds of different proteins, each containing 20 types of amino acids arranged in chains that might be several hundred long. For bacteria to evolve by beneficial mutations one at a time would take much, much longer than three or four billion years, the time that many scientists believe life has existed on earth.
A famous Russian scientist? What was his field? History? Clearly not biology at least. In general proteins consists of domains that are just arranged in different ways. It's not like every singe protein evolved from nothing one amino acid at a time. The main driving forces of protein evolution are gene duplication, recombination, and natural selection.
Also, where does OP postulate this conspiracy to take place? Is all genomics data fake? Are all fossils fake? Is the distribution of species over the Earth artificially created? Do doctors implant us with tailbones when we're born? I wonder, how many millions of people would have to be involved over many many centuries..edit on 26-8-2011 by rhinoceros because: (no reason given)
Simple bacteria can divide about every 20 minutes and have many hundreds of different proteins, each containing 20 types of amino acids arranged in chains that might be several hundred long