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To: Islander7

I don’t think you DO part with the evolution folks on the origin of life.

From what I remember from school, evolution doesn’t try to explain where life came from at all. It just tries to explain how life changes over time.

Even when scientists do think about the origin of life (NOT evolution), I remember hearing about an experiment with electricity zapping molecules that formed protein chains(?) that scientists said could be a precursor to life.

The scientists also said that DIDN’T mean there was no God, because God may have put the beginnings of life into the universe and zapped them into being.


11 posted on 01/24/2009 11:35:45 AM PST by RIghtNowAndAlways (Sarah in '012!)
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To: RIghtNowAndAlways

> an experiment with electricity zapping molecules that
> formed protein chains(?) that scientists said could be a
> precursor to life.

Yes, but it took intelligence to design the experiment, and intelligence to trap the amino acids out of the bath before the same process that formed them could destroy them.

Aslo, the amino acids formed by the experiment were the wrong type and could not support life.

When you see a lizard change into something other than a lizard, be sure to let us know.


21 posted on 01/24/2009 11:56:27 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: RIghtNowAndAlways

Even when scientists do think about the origin of life (NOT evolution), I remember hearing about an experiment with electricity zapping molecules that formed protein chains(?) that scientists said could be a precursor to life.

The scientists also said that DIDN’T mean there was no God, because God may have put the beginnings of life into the universe and zapped them into being......”

I remember that experiment, around 1957?. They formed amino acids.

The views expressed by those gentleman were from the 1950s. The views of the younger, modern crop tend to be militantly anti-God. So from their views, I part company.


33 posted on 01/24/2009 1:15:52 PM PST by Islander7 (LOST TAGLINE - If found, please return. LARGE Reward.)
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