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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Sorry but wrong unless you believe in animism or an élan vitale.

Your comment on this and abiogenesis is very common, but the irony is that it is creationism in a different guise.

Chemicals are chemicals, no difference between dead and alive except defining characteristics, the main one being the ability to replicate.


39 posted on 06/15/2017 1:34:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

I stand by everything I said — but, not necessarily things which you chose to read into what I said.

Abiogenesis is perfectly compatible with (part of, but not all of) creationism. Creationism covers both the creation of life; and the origin of species. Abiogenesis covers the creation of live itself — but, says nothing about the diversity of lifeforms. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution covers the diversification of lifeforms — but, says nothing about the origin of life itself. That was deliberate — partly because Darwin knew he had no ‘scientific’ explanation for the origin of life; and partly because Darwin was, himself, a religious man. I left all of that out before, in the interest of brevity. There’s ‘irony’ here — it’s just not where you think it is.


82 posted on 06/15/2017 2:18:06 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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