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To: furball4paws
But Pasteur DID NOT DISPROVE SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ...Because it's virtually impossible to prove a negative

That would then make spontaneous generation an unfalsifiable theory. It should therefore be rejected immediately as unscientific.

This is faintly ridiculous. If life were such a foregone conclusion, then we should have been able to create it long before now. I mean, we have the finished product available everywhere for study and the reverse engineering is pretty straightforward for the simplest bacterial cells. We know pretty much all the important chemicals and how they're put together. Quit worrying about what the primordial Earth was like and just create the optimal conditions in the laboratory and create self-replicating molecules that you then guide with artificial speed into bacteria. Create the life, already, then worry about finding the mechanism that was in place on the primordial Earth.

Oh, wait. Even with everything we know about biochemistry, and the ability to create the perfectly optimized lab conditions we still can't create spontaneously forming complex organic, self-replicating, information carrying moleules. So instead, we'll get grant money for red herring experiments where we'll cook methane in a clay matrix to make hydrocarbon chains and ignore all the organic chemistry professors that look at us and say: Well, duh, what did you expect?

269 posted on 11/04/2005 7:35:27 PM PST by frgoff
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To: frgoff
If life were such a foregone conclusion, then we should have been able to create it long before now.
 
You'd think, wouldn't you?
 
But, they MAY be onto Something with this clay thing...............
 


Romans 9:21
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
 

Jeremiah 18:4
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
 
 
 
Isaiah 45:9
"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?
 

Isaiah 64:8
Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

303 posted on 11/05/2005 4:47:36 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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