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To: Conspiracy Guy
Why can't scientists take the amoeba and engineer an elephant? Both creatures contain the same elements.

When I read Darwin's Origin of Species, I didn't notice him predicting you could stimulate an amoeba into morphing into an elephant. You appear to be ignorant of what evolution actually is or says.

42 posted on 03/09/2005 2:34:39 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro

No. You did not read what I was responding to. The thank a scientist post from Mongo. He worships science so I asked why they can't take basic elements of animals and alter them.

I'll ask you why they can't create life from the basic elements? If randomness can do it why can't science?


50 posted on 03/09/2005 2:38:22 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
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To: VadeRetro

What Darwin did was to observe that living creatures have adapted to their environments. He did not accurately explain how this happened in terms of a physical mechanism, because random mutations have not proven to give rise to sufficient sustainable changes. In other words, by what mechanism does a species change from land dwelling to sea creatures? It isn't because one day a land creature happened to randomly give birth to a sea creature and the sea creature by natural selection had more luck breeding and surviving. A line of changes occurred over millions of years by which the species changed in a purposeful direction. When it was done the land species was gone and the sea dwelling species existed. But what process triggers and guides these changes is unknown. Nature seems to have an inate ability to develop life, and life seems to have an inate ability to progress to more complex organisms including consciousness. This did not all just randomly happen from a random single cell of life. It is following a path, whether that path is God or nature.


60 posted on 03/09/2005 2:43:06 PM PST by Williams
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