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To: Sopater

Evolution should be subdivided into two different concepts.

One is the obvious and scientifically verifiable concept of natural selection, which is not inherently objectionable to Creation Science advocates. That is, that in any contest for life or reproduction, one of the contestants will prove superior to the other, and thus their descent will continue.

The other and controversial aspect of evolution is the theory that on the macro scale inert matter will become life in the right environment and that over a vast period of time natural selection will result in some less developed species becoming different and more developed species.

While the Miller-Urey experiment demonstrated that in the right circumstances amino acids will develop from inert matter, only an extended version of that experiment could ever substantiate the organization of amino acids into a functional protein.

However, even that could be countered with the idea that the intelligent organizational apparatus, while invisible, still exists and is responsible for the recreation of the protein, even in a sealed environment.


20 posted on 12/07/2007 9:25:58 AM PST by Popocatapetl
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To: Popocatapetl
While the Miller-Urey experiment demonstrated that in the right circumstances amino acids will develop from inert matter, only an extended version of that experiment could ever substantiate the organization of amino acids into a functional protein.

The Miller-Urey experiment, and extended versions of that experiment demonstrated that natural science has a long way to go to try and explain a possible origin of life in the absence of intelligence.
21 posted on 12/07/2007 10:20:52 AM PST by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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