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To: central_va
So a billion years ago something that took a supercomputer to replicate today took place by chance? Do you see the dichotomy? Viruses are proteins that need a host to replecate. How could primitive proteins reproduce without a host? You are so lost.

First of all, the earliest we can verify that life existed was 3.5 billion years ago, not 1 billion years ago.

Second, I don't put a great deal of significance on the fact that we need a supercomputer to help figure out some biological systems. Actually, for most of the evolutionary analyses that I do as part of my research, an ordinary PC works just fine. But if I were to move into the area of trying to determine exact protein structure, then I might start using supercomputers. The fact that we need supercomputing capacity to figure out exactly how a specific protein folds, however, doesn't lead me to think, "Oh, man, this protein folding is so complicated--God must be folding each and every protein in every single cell of every organism on earth, because proteins are obviously way too complicated to fold by themselves!" Nope, I actually don't believe God is personally folding an unimaginably large number of protein molecules every second. They fold by themselves.

227 posted on 06/02/2012 4:46:31 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom
Nope, I actually don't believe God is personally folding an unimaginably large number of protein molecules every second.

I am glad you are finally recognizing your theories as beliefs and not scientific fact. You are making progress.

228 posted on 06/02/2012 5:13:45 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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