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To: allmendream; scottdeus12
Amino acids can and do form spontaneously. It is however, only when they are put together in sequence

Put together in sequence....

Do they ever go into sequence spontaneously?

65 posted on 04/07/2008 8:43:47 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Yes, amino acids form polymers spontaneously.

If you believe God created life (as I do) he didn't handicap himself such that it was an energetically unfavorable process. Much of the ‘basic building blocks’ were there (according to his plan) forming where he wanted them ‘on their own’ (inasmuch as anything in HIS creation is ‘on their own’; I just mean that it didn't take ‘magic’ or ‘divine intervention’ to get the molecules of life to form here on the Earth, just chemistry.).

If someone somewhere comes up with a rudimentary life form from unliving matter it would do nothing but enhance my amazement at the gloriousness of HIS creation. Some people would see no ‘need’ for God if this was the case, and think this finding was ‘anti-God’ or some such.

But just as stars forming out in the universe show that it didn't take “magic” for God to make our Sun (just gravity and nuclear fusion), it doesn't mean that God didn't make our Sun, just that he used gravity and nuclear fusion to do so.

If life is capable of forming spontaneously by the rules of this universe alone, then the means God used to make life was chemistry and physics; not that God didn't make life.

God made it all, God planned it all, God made the rules that made the formation of planets and stars inevitable, why not life? God did command the oceans to bring forth life in Genesis. What was this ‘command’ and how did the oceans ‘hear’ or ‘obey’?

77 posted on 04/07/2008 9:15:42 AM PDT by allmendream
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