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To: Natural Law

“The Myth that Darwin believed in spontaneous generation or that life emerged from nothing. Darwin never addressed initial creation or suggested any answers to the origin of life.”

Really?

“Science News
Charles Darwin Really Did Have Advanced Ideas About The Origin Of Life
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2009)
A comment in a notebook dating back to 1837, in which Darwin explains that “the intimate relationship between the vital phenomena with chemistry and its laws makes the idea of spontaneous generation conceivable,” gave the researchers their clue...........
In another famous letter sent in 1871 to his friend, the English botanist and explorer Joseph D. Hooker, Charles Darwin imagines a small, warm pool where the inanimate matter would arrange itself into evolutionary matter, aided by chemical components and sufficient sources of energy.”


11 posted on 10/31/2009 4:29:04 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
"In another famous letter sent in 1871 to his friend, the English botanist and explorer Joseph D. Hooker"

Famous? So famous no one has heard of it, except those who sift through his waste basket looking for incriminations. Exploring a line of thought in a private letter in a rhetorical posing and expecting a thoughtful response hardly professing the musing as fact.

13 posted on 10/31/2009 5:31:47 PM PDT by Natural Law
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