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To: Dimensio
It's simple, but so awfully complicated.

Reproduction had to have been built-in for biogenesis to succeed. There could be no "evolution" in that process for it had to succeed from the beginning, otherwise there would be no life. If evolution continued, it began from that point.

That's the simple part. The rest, I believe, is God.

I doubt we'll ever be able to solve biogenesis, because to know what precedes it would imply knowledge of death beyond simply knowing that it happens.

210 posted on 09/01/2006 8:38:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug
Reproduction had to have been built-in for biogenesis to succeed. There could be no "evolution" in that process for it had to succeed from the beginning, otherwise there would be no life.

This is true, but not a problem for explanations of biogenesis because it is already known that organic molecules will, on their own, form chains that can lead to self replication. It is not a problem for the theory of evolution because the details of biogenesis are not relevant to the process of evolution that occurs after reproducing life exists.
215 posted on 09/01/2006 9:16:35 AM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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