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To: Strategerist
The origin of life has nothing to do with Evolution.

If the theory of evolution is about how creatures evolved, the question becomes what they evolved from.

246 posted on 12/20/2005 9:20:37 AM PST by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9/11 never happened-liberals pretend it didn't!)
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To: Anti-MSM
"If the theory of evolution is about how creatures evolved, the question becomes what they evolved from."

The question is not relevant to the theory. Abiogenesis is the theory that deals with the origins of life. They are separate fields.
249 posted on 12/20/2005 9:23:07 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: Anti-MSM
If the theory of evolution is about how creatures evolved, the question becomes what they evolved from.

And that question is the very interesting field of abiogenesis, filled with many theories, and obviously, since the origin of life was over 3 billion years ago, determining which of them is correct will be quite difficult as the surviving evidence of life at that time is spotty.

There's really no need to teach anything about abiogenesis in High School or Junior High given the uncertainty over it and the complexity of discussing it, and I'd have no problem with the whole topic being ignored. However, evolution is a different story.

252 posted on 12/20/2005 9:24:13 AM PST by Strategerist
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