Posted on 11/24/2009 6:50:51 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
Pro-Darwin consensus doesn't rule out intelligent design
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(CNN) -- While we officially celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on November 24, celebrations of Darwin's legacy have actually been building in intensity for several years. Darwin is not just an important 19th century scientific thinker. Increasingly, he is a cultural icon.
Darwin is the subject of adulation that teeters on the edge of hero worship, expressed in everything from scholarly seminars and lecture series to best-selling new atheist tracts like those by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. The atheists claim that Darwin disproved once and for all the argument for intelligent design from nature.
And that of course is why he remains hugely controversial. A Zogby poll commissioned by the Discovery Institute this year found that 52 percent of Americans agree "the development of life was guided by intelligent design." Those who are not scientists may wonder if they have a right to entertain skepticism about Darwinian theory.
Read a leading Darwin proponent's view that evolution leaves no room for intelligent design theory...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
No, It’s E-S and his herbs and prayers.
Indeed, as per usual, the evos did not address the major points of the article. Their avoidance speaks volumes IMHO.
With that I’m off. cheers!
In the absence of oxygen, there would have been lots of different ways complex organic compounds could have been created - hot magma, ultraviolet light, lightning, asteroid impacts - and since there was nothing to "eat" those compounds, they accumulated to a sufficient (but still very low) concentration so that the ones with the chemical propensity to replicate could and did. Certain kinds of these, such as nucleic acids,and phospholipids replicated faster and were more successful at it than other forms. This process built on itself until the faster replicators crowded out other compounds that didn't replicate or replicated slowly or more imperfectly.
Eventually, groups of these successfully replicating compounds formed, by chance of course, although some including me, say it was inevitable given the amount of time involved. These groups were even more successful at replicating than the individual compounds. Continue this and pretty soon, after a billion years or so, you have life as we recognize it.
As for your second question, new life can't form now because the existing life is so efficient at using any source of energy, such as complex organic chemicals, that there isn't a sufficient concentration of these organics.
The biggest problem I have with the ID people is that they think too small, concentrating on feathers and eyes, when the the real wonder is in how everything (earth's location, the sun's size, the elemental composition of the earth, the laws of physics, etc) fit together so perfectly as to result in me answering your questions. That's the design part.
Did you know that everything you do, say and even think is about religion. Everything you do, say and think are either against HIM or for HIM. There is not a thread on FR that is not about "religion". All of creation revolves around The LORD, even you. Everything is relative, relative to HIM.
Get a life.
And what is your life like?
And what is your life like?
lulz..report abuse on that guy
Chemistry works ~ given certain ingredients, at certain temperatures and pressures, you regularly find “self organization”.
Then how is it that you exist?
Once you get a Creator God, that's the end of the discussion.
You will find that the anti-God crowd really doesn't want to pursue further examination of the "Multiverse".
Which raises a question ~ why are you now aligned with the Atheists?
The oceans have BILLIONS of identifiably different viruses ~ where are they coming from?
Still, sex happens, and new beings come into existence constantly as a consequence.
Ira, please, that sounds so “CRU” ~ and that’s on a different thread!
Really, so today or last year what new life has been created? I know from where life comes, but am wondering what people who do not understand that God creates life thinks about life creation.
I have yet to hear about a new species of plant or animal being created in my lifetime. So...how come? And, how did the first life get created, if God did not create it? From where did the life come from? Please, no primordial soup fallacy...there was no “soup” before life, there were simply inorganic matter.
The things we don't hear about are many.
BTW, recent research has revealed the existence of BILLIONS of different viruses in the ocean. Where are they coming from?
Cold Water knows nothing of it, besides it being a target for his ridicule.
Did you seriously just ask such an anile question? This forum has such because it was designed that way by its creator.
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