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To: b_sharp
Baloney. For one, chemical reactions are not strictly 'by accident'.

There is no chemical property that makes it more likely for DNA to just happen to line up in just such a way as to create a living cell, let alone for the DNA to just happen to be surrounded by exactly the right materials to interact with to create a cell from scratch.

For another, all the probability calculations I've seen and that I assume you are referring to, make some rather silly initial condition assumptions.

The "silly initial condition assumptions" are the ones required for the primordial soup creation myth.

I admire your faith. I don't have sufficient faith to believe in accidental abiogenesis. It's much easier to believe in God, especially after you've had some personal encounters with Him.

377 posted on 01/09/2006 6:39:27 PM PST by Buggman (L'chaim b'Yeshua HaMashiach!)
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To: Buggman
There is no chemical property that makes it more likely for DNA to just happen to line up in just such a way as to create a living cell, let alone for the DNA to just happen to be surrounded by exactly the right materials to interact with to create a cell from scratch.

And if anyone actually believed any of that happened, you would have a point.

380 posted on 01/09/2006 6:47:38 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Buggman
"There is no chemical property that makes it more likely for DNA to just happen to line up in just such a way as to create a living cell, let alone for the DNA to just happen to be surrounded by exactly the right materials to interact with to create a cell from scratch.

This is one of those silly initial conditions I mentioned. Abiogenesis is just that, the development of what we would consider life from self replicating non-life. No mention of DNA as the initial molecule other than by creationists.

394 posted on 01/09/2006 7:18:53 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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