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To: Stultis
You are right about this author using the term "spontaneous generation" inappropriately. You are also correct that Darwin rejected spontaneous generation, but I would also note that he did so by invoking special creation of the first creatures.

My comment was directed to your assertion that darwinian evolution isn't even concerned with the origin of life. If that's the case then why, for example, do Darwinists object when someone postulates a complex genome as a starting point?

Without a specific concept of abiogenesis how do you know that the first reproductive cells were simple and then became more complex, or that multicellular organisms descended from unicellular ones, or how would you distinguish a fossil sequence that is the result of multiple abiogenesis events separated in time from one that is the result of ancestral lineage?

Since you answer to these questions necessarily follows from your particular assumptions about abiogenesis, there is a logical connection. Separating evolution from the origin of life is not logically coherent.

Cordially,

56 posted on 09/26/2010 5:41:30 AM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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57 posted on 09/26/2010 6:56:23 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (They are the vultures of Dark Crystal screeeching their hatred and fear into the void ....)
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