[sourcery]

FYI

[joesnuffy]

Its amazing how wonderfully complex life is and yet so undirected -it spontaneously arrose and began organizing...randomness giving rise to the ultimate in complexity...and all of this without any outside creative directing force. The finished creation having invented itself..
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... Lord you and I know its all your handiwork and even the chemical reactions of the brains that take this tripe for truth.. Thanks Lord think I will go out and enjoy what it is you and you alone have made for us...

[LarryLied]

Always suspected I am a result of bacteria on primitive beaches rather than descended from apes.

[gcruse]

Great article. Thanks for posting.

[Junior]

Another gap slams shut.

[Bush2000]

There was an experiment back in the 50s by Miller-Haldane which illustrated the possibility for amino acids to be formed by lightning breaking bonds within gases in a primitive earth atomosphere. I replicated it back in high school so I've verified that much. But other posters are quite right that it's unknown how amino acids spontaneously formed themselves into peptide chains and, then, into primitive cells. This is the key to understanding our biological growth. In my personal opinion, "science" in this regard is on rather shaky ground. That's not to say that it couldn't happen -- but it's extremely difficult to prove conclusively.

You know, there is room in the theory of evolution for the existence of a Prime Mover -- God, if you will -- that set about a few basic processes and left them to evolve on their own. Darwin did not disprove the existence of God. And recently, there have been moves among physicists to consider the moments immediately prior to the Big Bang -- something that they've been loathe to do previously because almost nothing is known about that time. To paraphrase one of them, "We don't have proof of the existence of God. But to ignore the hypothesis that God may exist and formed the universe prior to the Big Bang is just plain wrong."

[FourtySeven]

Welp, so much for having never seen evolution in the laboratory.

Good post!