Complex Cells Likely Arose from Combination of Bacterial and Extreme-Microbe Genomes

National Science Foundation ^ | 08 September 2004 | Staff, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs

[stremba]

I think evolution should be concerned about abiogenesis. If that didn't happen, or cannot happen, that provides strong evidence in favor of intelligent design.

This is a fallacy. Evidence against one theory is not evidence in favor of another theory. You can't support ID by providing evidence against abiogenesis. Furthermore, do you presume to know the psychology of an "intellegent designer"? Can you be sure that the "designer" might not have designed the first cell and then simply allowed evolution to take its course? No matter how much you want the two to be related, abiogenesis and evolution are completely independent of each other. (I can see why people try to associate them, BTW, since many supporters of evolution are also supporters of abiogenesis. Still, this does NOT make the theory of evolution dependent on abiogenesis or vice-versa.)

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Speaking of cell design, check this out:
http://www.arn.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-14-t-000967.html
Nanomachines: another one of nature's miracles!

[TASMANIANRED]

Begs the question. Where did the origional bacteria cells come from. Where did the organelles, the dna , come from?

[stremba]

All good questions, but irrelevant as far as the theory of evolution is concerned. See my post #61.

[backslacker]

" complex cells like those in the human body probably resulted from""

The Human imagination hard at work, again.