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To: Elsiejay
TThe probability that even one amino acid molecule came into existence absent an external, initiating, guiding, creating intelligence is quite enough for me.

That's not evolution, it's abiogenesis. Conflating the two is a common ploy in the debate, effectively making biblical literalism and philosophical naturalism the only arguments allowed. They call that a fallacy of false dichotomy.

22 posted on 09/07/2013 4:26:37 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

That’s neat! That which we call life spontaneously generating itself from non life (abio). And so simple and straightforward that no one should hesitate to accept it.
Herbert Yockey wrote a monograph dealing with the probability of a protein being created by mindless chance. The probability of evolving one molecule of iso-1-cytochrome c was calculated to be one chance in 2.3 times ten billion vigintillion (1 followed by 75 zeroes). Yockey concluded, “The origin of life by chance in a primeval soup is impossible in probability in the same way that a perpetual motion machine is impossible in probability.”

But surely Yockey knew about abiogenesis!


42 posted on 09/07/2013 4:40:02 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: tacticalogic

>>>That’s not evolution, it’s abiogenesis. Conflating the two is a common ploy in the debate, effectively making biblical literalism and philosophical naturalism the only arguments allowed. They call that a fallacy of false dichotomy.<<<

It has been at least 5 years since I’ve been here, maybe more.

To see my style of argumentation still reflected.

Bravo!


133 posted on 12/25/2013 7:55:46 PM PST by LogicWings
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