[Right Wing Professor]

I doubt that's what happened at all. Remember that cytochrome c is in effect just a mechanism for modifying the Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ redox couple. Proto-life probably originally used some rather non-specifically bound organic iron or surface bound iron to do redox chemistry.

Cytochrome c isn't an enzyme, BTW.

Which survives, multiplies and evolves into something that uses polymers of nucleotides to code for polymers of amino acids (miracle).

Humankind has historically considered that which they don't fully understand a miracle. As we learn more and more about nature, the space in which miracles can exist has been contracting alarmingly. If you're committed to looking for God in the gaps; doesn't it worry you that the gaps are narrowing?

[tpaine]

Humankind has historically considered that which they don't fully understand a miracle. As we learn more and more about nature, the space in which miracles can exist has been contracting alarmingly.

If you're committed to looking for God in the gaps; doesn't it worry you that the gaps are narrowing?
885 -RWP-

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It's quite evident that the self styled 'Godly' types among us are getting more & more worried.
As they lose their ablity to control society by mystical edicts, they increasingly insist that it is their ~opponents~ who MUST be seen as illogical.

Catch 22. -- You're the crazy irrational athiest if you cannot see the world through the eyes of their god.

[PatrickHenry]

If you're committed to looking for God in the gaps; doesn't it worry you that the gaps are narrowing?

I posted a neat quote by Einstein on this topic in a thread titled Researchers Design And Build First Artificial Protein. It was at post 14.

[Tribune7]

I doubt that's what happened at all.

Maybe you are rational :-)

Cytochrome c isn't an enzyme,

You're the one who suggested the evolution of an enzyme, remember. That amino acids form then create cytochrome c along with an enzyme which bond isn't helping your case.

Humankind has historically considered that which they don't fully understand a miracle.

True

As we learn more and more about nature, the space in which miracles can exist has been contracting .

True and this is good.

If you're committed to looking for God in the gaps; doesn't it worry you that the gaps are narrowing?

I am certain beyond any doubt that God exists in the gaps and elsewhere. I personally think the gaps have enlarged or solidified, anyway, over the last generation, but that's not the point.

I'd believe in God even if the steady-state universe had never been debunked or fruit flys were successfully bred into bees. I've seen the light, had the Amazing Grace expericence etc. etc. It's real. Jesus did rise. As wonderful and good the laws of physics are, and the study of them, it is not all there is.