where there is obvious design, there must be, just as obviously, a designer
. Evolutionist Martin Moe correctly commented that “a century of sensational discoveries in the biological sciences has taught us that life arises only from life” (1981, 89[11]:36 ). Even the eminent evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson and his colleagues observed that “there is no serious doubt that biogenesis is the rule, that life comes only from other life, that a cell, the unit of life, is always and exclusively the product or offspring of another cell” (1965, p. 144 ). Yet with almost the same breath, these same teachers and professors tell their students that nonliving chemicals produced living organisms some time in the distant past—that is, spontaneous generation occurred.
Moe, Martin (1981), “Genes on Ice,” Science Digest, 89[11]:36,95, December.
Simpson, G.G., C.S. Pittendrigh, and L.H. Tiffany (1965), Life: An Introduction to Biology (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World).
AMEN BROTHER!
I'm reminded of an ecology professor I once had, who delighted in bullshitting his students to see how far they'd let him go. Once he took the class out into the woods, and cried excitedly, "look at what the Indians have done to these trees!" Neatly placed around the base of each tree was a perfect circle of small stones. He let us students go on theorizing about Indian religious rituals, until at last he could stand it no longer and informed us the truth; namely, that rainwater running down the tree trunks had eroded the soil from the base of the trees, leaving what appeared to be something that could only have been done by intelligent design.
Abiogenesis is probably the only reason Darwin's theory became accepted in the first place. The notion was then built upon with a great deal of other "evidence." You know, like Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man, Java Man, the "Hopeful Monster" theory, recapitulationism, the delibrately doctored Lucy pelvis, the "Killer Ape" hypothesis of Prof. Dart., etc.