[Chainmail]

To go along with “computational biology” you’d have to accept that that first bit of life, a complete living organism, not only happened on its own - but had the full program to build the next several billion more - already coded into it.

Then you’ve have to believe that on top of it all, that original happenstance bit of existence also has built-in operating instructions AND the incredible ability to self-improve.

None of the folks investing in these schemes never were engineers, apparently.

[ETL]

To go along with “computational biology” you’d have to accept that that first bit of life, a complete living organism, not only happened on its own - but had the full program to build the next several billion more - already coded into it.

And did life only appear once, in one place, or in other locations over a period of time? And if so, in what ways were these organisms different, if at all?

[John Locke]

Thank you, Chainmail.

Several years ago, I made myself very unpopular in a science newsgroup by saying that, while individual organisms might indeed have evolved, they could not possibly also have evolved "the ability to evolve". Any explanation of that needs at least Aristotelian entelechy, and however you slice it, that implies the creation of past effects by future causes. Anathema to modern science.

And if that brings to mind Revelation i:8, I am of the same mind. God is both First Cause and Final Cause.