Chris Williams, Ph.D., Biochemistry Ohio State University
As a biochemist and software developer who works in genetic and metabolic screening, I am continually amazed by the incredible complexity of life. For example, each of us has a vast ‘computer program’ of six billion DNA bases in every cell that guided our development from a fertilized egg, specifies how to make more than 200 tissue types, and ties all this together in numerous highly functional organ systems. Few people outside of genetics or biochemistry realize that evolutionists still can provide no substantive details at all about the origin of life, and particularly the origin of genetic information in the first self-replicating organism. What genes did it require – or did it even have genes? How much DNA and RNA did it have – or did it even have nucleic acids? How did huge information-rich molecules arise before natural selection? Exactly how did the genetic code linking nucleic acids to amino acid sequence originate? Clearly the origin of life – the foundation of evolution - is still virtually all speculation, and little if no fact.
Thank you for that wonderful quote from a distinguished scientist.
I’ve looked a bit into his research, and I can find no evidence that Professor Williams has any dispute with the larger theory of macro-evolution, nor can I find any statement of his on record that he feels as though his statement here (which is merely asserting, as I have, that the macro-evolutionary theoretical model makes no assertions or predictions about the mechanisms of abiogenesis) has made him the target of any undo criticism or bias by the “Evo-Cult” community as you call them.
It actually sounds like his and my background are quite similar, so if you have evidence that he’s found his impressions on this matter have “stacked the deck against him” in the scientific community, I’d be very interested in seeing it, as it is potentially worrisome for my own professional interests.
I’m sorry you do not see my point about how blurring the lines between cosmology and science can make life difficult for those of who who are actively and intellectually involved in both fields of human thought. I cannot press the point any further than I have, so I respectfully agree that this is an irreconcilable point between us.