To: Creationist
A cursory google search reveals that "Natural Wonders of the World" is a general interest science book intended for younger readers and published in 1978. Perhaps next you'll show us how "Baby's First Pop-up Book of Farm Animals" conclusively proves young-earth creationism.
Darwin may have wrote a century and a half ago, but there has been constant research on evolution since then, from the 'modern synthesis' to more recent discoveries in evo devo, evolutionary genetics, and punctuated equilibrium.
On the other hand, Genesis is just as bad a science textbook today as it was 2700 years ago when it was first written.
To: DiogenesTheDog
Oh so it is ok to lie to younger reader in your mind.
Fill their heads with speculation that is a philosophy and call it science.
I see your intentions very clearly, no matter who the book is written to it is a book that all can read and with words presupposed factual they believe the philosophy that you wish to propagated as a known truth testable and provable.
Magic dust and happy thoughts and the lizard will give birth to a chizard.
From Biology, third edition by Sylvia S. Mader. 1990 Chapter 22 page 329
Chemical Evolution
The sun and the planets probably( here is the evolutionary term for fact ) formed from aggregates of dust particles and debris about 4.6 billion years ago. (Once again no was was there to record the date but they know how it happened) Intense heat produced by gravitational energy and radioactivity of some atoms caused the earth to become stratified into a core, mantle, and crust. Heavier atoms of iron and nickel became the molten liquid core and dense silicate minerals became the semi liquid mantle. The unstable mantle caused the thin crust to move continually, so there were no stable land masses during the time life was evolving. (All of this is stated as fact with no one there to record the process. You have a philosophy not a science. All this is hypothetical and not testable or observable)
The primitive atmosphere was not the same as today's atmosphere. (Yea and it was not the way Miller or Urey thought it was as evidence in the rocks does not have a reducing atmosphere but a oxidation one.)
ON page 330 there is a sequence of four pictures
a. The primitive atmosphere contained gases, (yea) including water vapor (hmmp H20 ) that escaped from volcanoes as the latter cooled, some gases were washed into the ocean by rain. (boy the suspense.
b. The availability of energy from volcanic eruption and lightning allowed gases to form simple organic molecules. (fairy dusting, lightning makes ozone which is oxygen the simple molecules would have dissolved in the mass action of the ocean. also when ever have you seen lightning or a volcano make something better than it was before.)
(Here is the cool part) Amino acids splashed up onto rocky coasts could have polymerzed into polypeptides (proteinoids) that that would have become microspheres when they reentered the water. (I wrote that as slow as I could so you would grasp what was being said>
But if not here is a simple run down could have-speculation- splashed up onto rocky coasts that was so mass action of the ocean would not dilute, but the rain must have quit also. Now once they became something stable they had to get back in the water as the sun would break them down with the lack of the ozone to protect them. If you do not know already the would have is also speculation assumption wishful thinking as science has and never will produce living matter from inorganic matter.
d. Eventually (read that again if you did not catch it the first time, stated as if it is fact, know, documented, happens on a regular basis) various types of prokaryotes and then eukaryotes evolved. Some of the prokaryotes were oxygen producing photosynthesizers. (Why? because you could not be here if they were not there first, duh.) The presence of oxygen in the atmosphere was needed for aerobic respiration to evolve. (So dumb life decided it wanted to produce oxygen so it could evolve one day to have a discussion on which creation is true My God did it all in 6 24 hour days complete with every thing functioning or your god the other dimension that explodes.
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09/05/2007 8:38:11 PM PDT by
Creationist
( Evolution is a faith based science with no proof. Scientist are the prophets, teachers the preacher)
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