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To: LiteKeeper
Helps one appreciate the impossibility of the spontaneous generation of life.

No, but it does help one appreciate the virtual impossibility of the spontaneous generation of life based around hemoglobin or clorophyll. Note, however, that the only people making that absurd claim are creationists. Reasonable people believe that complex biological systems evolved over time using well understood mechanisms.

8 posted on 11/16/2008 8:50:11 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker
Reasonable people believe that complex biological systems evolved over time using well understood mechanisms.

How convenient - you changed the subject. I was talking about the origin of life, and you replied with a comment about life evolving...and said nothing about the origin of life. Pretty fast work.

12 posted on 11/16/2008 9:22:45 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Alter Kaker
Reasonable people believe that complex biological systems evolved over time using well understood mechanisms.

Please elaborate on these "well understood mechanisms" you speak of. For example describe the stociometric conditions that enabled self-sytheses of complex biomolecues and how reaction pathways "evolved", how did the huge obstacle of activation energies for reactions necessary in systhsizing these biomolecules were overcome in the absence of appropriate catalysis, and finally how is it that these systems evolve over great spans of time when organic biomolecules have relatively short shelf-life (hours, days maybe) before they degrade or become denatured. Are you talking about in-vitro systems or in-vivo systems that are so well understood?

14 posted on 11/17/2008 7:42:01 AM PST by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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