[connectthedots]

The McGill applicant was furious. Evolution, he said, needs no evidence. It's fact. Apparently Harvard University doesn't quite agree with him. The Boston Globe reports that Harvard has begun an expensive project to discover how life emerged from the chemical soup of early earth. In the 150 years since Darwin, says the Globe, "scientists cannot explain how the process began."

Looks like the FR evolutionists need to have a talk with the Harvard evolutionists and get them straightened out since "the origin of life was never a part of evolution." Those ignorant Harvardites.

[Alter Kaker]

Looks like the FR evolutionists need to have a talk with the Harvard evolutionists and get them straightened out since "the origin of life was never a part of evolution." Those ignorant Harvardites.

I'm not sure anybody said that the emergence of the first life isn't an important question, just that its a separate question from the observed change in allele frequencies over time we call evolution.

[stands2reason]

Nothing in that quote says that Harvardites consider abiogenesis as part of the ToE. Only the writer of this article is implying that. Reread it.

[mad_as_he$$]

There is a scene in the last couple of episodes of STNG where Picard is traveling in and out of different times and an amomale is getting bigger and bigger ripping space apart. The legendary Q takes him to Earth several billion years ago and while they are standing over a bubbling puddle of goo asks him what would happen if life on Earth had never started - "it's about happen to right there in that pool" says Q. Picard leans over and blocks some of the sunlight and Q says "oops there it goes - oh too bad Jean Luc."

Was it that simple or that complex? Was God that indirect? I don't know but some day if he shows up I'll ask him. In the meantime I still wonder about books left out of the Christian Bible and what the mean.

If God wants to fry me for wondering then so be it. It is my business to wonder and I have made many lives better for it.

It is our nature as a species to wonder and if you believe in Creation then God made us that way. If you believe in ID or Evon then we wonder to improve our position on this rock. Either way I'll take it. Ideas can be changed but beliefs can't.