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To: CarolinaGuitarman

Hey Guitarman, keep strummin'.

Evolution is not comprehensive enough to incorporate the Origin of Life. Intelligent Design is.

In fact, Intelligent Design is broad enough to include Evolution as the process by which life expanded on earth.

Stop getting wasted, and start thinking.

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Yockey
Information theorist Hubert Yockey argued that chemical evolutionary research raises the question:

Research on the origin of life seems to be unique in that the conclusion has already been authoritatively accepted … . What remains to be done is to find the scenarios which describe the detailed mechanisms and processes by which this happened. One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written. (Yockey, 1977. A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by information theory, Journal of Theoretical Biology 67:377–398, quotes from pp. 379, 396.)

In a book he wrote 15 years later, Yockey argued that the idea of abiogenesis from a primordial soup is a failed paradigm:

Although at the beginning the paradigm was worth consideration, now the entire effort in the primeval soup paradigm is self-deception on the ideology of its champions. … The history of science shows that a paradigm, once it has achieved the status of acceptance (and is incorporated in textbooks) and regardless of its failures, is declared invalid only when a new paradigm is available to replace it. Nevertheless, in order to make progress in science, it is necessary to clear the decks, so to speak, of failed paradigms. This must be done even if this leaves the decks entirely clear and no paradigms survive. It is a characteristic of the true believer in religion, philosophy and ideology that he must have a set of beliefs, come what may (Hoffer, 1951). Belief in a primeval soup on the grounds that no other paradigm is available is an example of the logical fallacy of the false alternative. In science it is a virtue to acknowledge ignorance. This has been universally the case in the history of science as Kuhn (1970) has discussed in detail. There is no reason that this should be different in the research on the origin of life. (Yockey, 1992. Information Theory and Molecular Biology, p. 336, Cambridge University Press, UK, ISBN 0-521-80293-8).

Yockey, in general, possesses a highly critical attitude toward people who give credence toward natural origins of life, often invoking words like "faith" and "ideology". Yockey's publications have become favorites to quote among creationists, though he is not a creationist himself (as noted in this 1995 email [1]).

Panspermia advocates
Panspermia, the idea that life came to Earth from elsewhere in the universe, is viewed by some as a criticism of abiogenesis. However, panspermia hypotheses simply transfer the origin problem elsewhere without offering a solution, so it does not necessarily address or criticize abiogenesis.

Crick
Francis Crick, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule, and chemist Leslie Orgel co-proposed Directed Panspermia as the mechanism through which life started on Earth.


176 posted on 04/15/2006 2:48:00 PM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Senator Allen on Democrats: "...let's enjoy knocking their soft teeth down their whiny throats.")
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To: Enduring Freedom
Evolution is not comprehensive enough to incorporate the Origin of Life. Intelligent Design is.

Intelligent Design can account for any observation because it is not scientific.
187 posted on 04/15/2006 3:07:56 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Enduring Freedom
"Evolution is not comprehensive enough to incorporate the Origin of Life. Intelligent Design is."

ID doesn't explain anything. It says an unknown designer did unknown things at an unknown time in an untestable way. ID'ers make claims, none of which they can back up.

"In fact, Intelligent Design is broad enough to include Evolution as the process by which life expanded on earth."

ID attempts to explain everything but falls flat every time.

"Stop getting wasted, and start thinking. "

What a pompous, presumptuous ass you are. And you accuse US of arrogance?

Your links are meaningless; abiogenesis is not a part of the theory of evolution.
195 posted on 04/15/2006 3:21:02 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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