[Moral Hazard]

This article is pretty much a joke. This guy complains that nobody has found another planet that's like the Earth, when we currently have no ability to find another planet like the Earth. There are approximately 10^22 candidate solar systems out there, and we can't even check one of them other than our own.

He also seems to be of the opinion that evolutionary biology requires fully functioning complex proteins to form spontaneously. This is a bizzare argument. All that is required in the first "spark" is that you have an amino acid that is capable of self-replication. That is, it bonds with the surrounding material in the "primordial ooze" until it's formed two copies of itself, then splits apart from there. That's the logical starting point of evolution. Once there are trillions of copies you might expect some further mutation.

As for this "intelligent design" concept, it's just a cop-out. It finds God to be wherever you can't explain, and conversely finds him in nothing that you can explain. Just because you don't understand how something works doesn't mean that there isn't a natural reason why it works.

[RightWingNilla]

As for this "intelligent design" concept, it's just a cop-out. It finds God to be wherever you can't explain, and conversely finds him in nothing that you can explain.

Its bad for science, yet its even worse for religion.

[microgood]

All that is required in the first "spark" is that you have an amino acid that is capable of self-replication.

And somehow from this these amino acids figure out how to grow organs, arms, legs, brains, eyes, DNA Chains billions and billions of molecules long.

It would take one smart amino acid and a whole lot of punctuated equilibrium to do that.

For me, evolution is not believable until this process can be explained, which of course it cannot be based on current evolutionary theory. That is why Gould came up with punctuated equilibrium which explains nothing.

[jwalsh07]

All that is required in the first "spark" is that you have an amino acid that is capable of self-replication.

You've found an amino acid that can self replicate?

[jhassle]

"As for this "intelligent design" concept, it's just a cop-out. It finds God to be wherever you can't explain, and conversely finds him in nothing that you can explain. Just because you don't understand how something works doesn't mean that there isn't a natural reason why it works."

Or

"As for this "evolution" concept, it's just a cop-out. It finds evolution to be wherever you can't explain, and conversely finds it in nothing that you can explain. Just because you don't understand how something works doesn't mean that there isn't a Supernatural reason why it works."