This has been coming up quite a lot recently.
Creationists labour under the illusion that because sensible people can't fully explain abiogenesis, the emergence of life from non-living nature, it somehow discredits biological evolution.
It does not.
Whether life arose naturally from non-living nature, or was poofed into existence, magically, by an unnatural entity such as a god, or by some Unidentified Flying Intelligent Designer (not a UFO, but UFID, maybe using a UFO), evolutionary science would not change one jot. The natural selection of heritable variations that favour reproduction would still operate.
Note also that Genesis itself states that life was "brought forth" from the earth and the waters. Non-living nature. Creationists, it seems, do not have sufficient faith in their god to believe that he was capable of creating a world that could bring forth life, and are not very good at studying their Bibles.
But the thing that really gets me is that creationists think they have a "gotcha", because we still do not have a complete plausible path from non-living matter to the first replicators capable of undergoing evolution. We know. And although much promising science has come from research into the origins of life, nobody is satisfied with what we have so far. We know, and we don't pretend we don't.
But we do understand basic probability theory, unlike creationists who do not, or at least pretend that they do not. See A Probability Demo.
Contrast the above with the creationist stance: They DO know, with absolute certainty, or so they believe, that it was the magic man, using his Ju-ju. No further explanation is offered. Yet they demand, of sensible people, a precise, detailed natural path from the non-living to the living.
Hypocrisy much?
Creationists are dualists, they do not believe that life arose from matter, They believe that the soul is eternal ans specifically that it takes on different types of bodies according to karma. Dna is just a blueprint for such bodies but the souls has an eternal home.
ReplyDeleteThere's no such thing as abiogenesis. It’s a fiction created by theists to explain the unexplainable. Their point is that : If you won’t accept god, you must believe life came from nothing. They can’t wrap their heads around saying we just don’t know. If teyy don’t have a rational answer, they make one up. They can’t bear saying or even thinking, “We don’t know”. whenever there’s doubt they claim goddidit. No rational thinking allowed.
ReplyDeleteGENESIS 2: 7 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." (Supernatural.)
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(Naturalism): "In biology, abiogenesis, or informally the origin of life is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. While the details of this process are still unknown... ..." 😃 = assumptions. (The 'process' is assumed! = a belief!) 😃
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
Is this atheistic 'Secular Humanism' organized religion ? :D
ReplyDeletehttps://creation.com/government-school-classrooms-temples-of-humanism
In Humanist Manifesto 1, (Atheist) Paul Kurtz, Ph.D., said, "Humanism is a philosophical, religious, and moral point of view as old as human civilization itself." ... ... and "FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created." https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto1/
ReplyDelete🎯 So, when school textbooks and teachers teach unproven things that parallel religious secular humanism writ - then it is in violation of the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
ORIGIN of the, "thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." (January 1, 1802) 😃 Thomas Jefferson writes about the Government staying out of the way of the religious. 😃 https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html
ReplyDeleteNatural selection is real, but it does not create anything. It's like quality control on the assembly line. - Micro-evolution (minor variations) happen within species, but has anyone seen living organisms increase in complexity? From simple to complex? Observed?
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