"Yes, the DNA molecule...
No. The ToE deals with the first living organism that was prone to replication errors and selection.
BTW, no one claims that DNA would have been the first replicator.
For example, how the first organism with DNA came to exist is not part of the theory of evolution.
"I love it when the evolutionist zealots contradict themselves...
This is not a contradiction. The study of common descent at the levels we currently are able to do so does not rely on knowledge of the very first organism. It is very easy to study how humans and chimps have a common ancestor or how hippos and whales have a common ancestor without being concerned with how the first proto-life originated.
The evolutionists have no more evidence that any species, flora or fauna, evolved on this planet at all than anyone who would say it was delivered and/or engineered by extraterrestrials...
The evolutionists have no more proof human life evolved from other Terran life than those who would say humans were marooned and/or engineered here by extraterrestrials...
Evolutionists make the fallacious assumption the Earth is the staring point for all life and is the encapsulated center of the universe unaffected by anything (or anyone) beyond it - - which may be even occurring unobserved in our midst!
Not at all scientific of them... a faith based theory no different in logical fallacy than creationism in the ‘appeal to false authority.’
[Life as we know it, of which all has DNA; exists only because H2O is a polar molecule.]
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Posted by Sir Francis Dashwood to manwiththehands
On News/Activism ^ 03/08/2006 2:24:11 AM PST · 440 of 707 ^
How do you feel about teaching the idea that life may have originated from outer space?
They already do... the Big Bang theory... another immaculate conception...
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