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Did Life Originate Underwater?
TuringTest writes "Sciencedaily reports a highly controversial new theory about the origins of life from Professor William Martin of the University of Dusseldorf and Dr Michael Russell of the Scottish Environmental Research Centre in Glasgow. The theory briefly states that inorganic cells where first, then living systems evolved inside these incubators which allowed an enough rich micro-environment. The small compartments would have been formed in iron sulphide rocks near hot, hydrothermal vents on the sea floor, not in the atmosphere. Wow, that would answer the chicken-egg problem."
With all the intelligence we can see and appreciate in our design and the intelligence that we can hopefully recognize in ourselves, you expect me to believe that all this intelligence came from hot water and random circumstances? When we presuppose God wasn't the creator and instead have hot water and inorganic material to thank, absolute ethics are all wet and we may find ourselves in hot water after we die. Well, maybe we will wish for water.
The whole Darwinism theory doesn't convince me at all. The "survival of the fittest" is OK, but it just won't convince me (or anyone that doesn't treat Darwinism like the absoulte truth) that we came from an incredibly long process of mutations. It's plain stupid and senseless.
While you are looking at unproven book everyone else will look at actual evidence and the world around them for answers.
Can you read Hebrew? Can you give your interpretation of the original Bible? I'm sorry but distorting and twisting the word of the Bible to something logical is not the way to prove Christian God's existence.
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I really don't see how sarcasm can be considered forcing either.
As for overwhelming evidence, there is plenty of evidence for microevolution, that is, adaptation within a species. However, there is no evidence of macroevolution, one species evolving from another. Scientists and other evolutionists have been looking for the "missing link" for years, without being able to find it.
I for one believe that God has an incredible sense of humor, and created things like dinosaur fossils, and other tantalizing evidence, simply to mess with the minds of scientists. Given all that exists in nature, with all the complexity of scientific laws, the makeup of molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles, etc. I simply find it much easier to believe that God created this, than that it simply came about as the result of a long string of fortuitous happenings starting with some Big Bang. By the way, where did the material for the Big Bang come from>
Come on, this has been discussed for a long time.
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Okay, so my first assumption was correct and my second assumption was wrong. I would then again ask that you not blame your almost unbelievably skewed views of modern scientific theories on the theories themselves. Just because Jerry Falwell or Fred Phelps says "the Big Bang says there was a bunch of empty space, and then there's this BOOM, and then there's a bunch of rocks and dirt floating around, and right soon you've got a bunch of monkeys and then they got together and formed the ACLU" doesn't make it an accurate depiction of what the theory actually says.
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See, I can be sarcastic too.
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