Originally posted by Z man
If I understand you correctly, you are implying that kinetic energy of molecules is what started evolution. So, life exists because a bunch of elements keep banging into each other? And life is nothing more than a bunch of molecules interacting with each other because of kinetic energy?!?! How irrational is that! And how demeaning of a definition you give life! Life is so much more than a bunch of chemical processes. Life, and the concious, rational mind, is one of the numerous Achelles Heel of evolution...
ROFLMMFAO!
All life is, is the interaction of nucleotides and nucleic acids. Deoxyribose in DNA, and ribose in RNA, a phosphate group and one of four different nitrogen-containing bases. In DNA, the bases are adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. In RNA, uracil substitutes for thymine. Protein is also part of this mixture we call life. None of these are "living" elements yet that is what we are made up from and that is what our last common ancestor was made of.
Now, this last common ancestor had specific traits. Those traits were the possession of genetic information - that is, inheritable instructions for functioning and reproducing and secondly, the means to replicate and carry out those instructions. Otherwise it would have left no descendants. Also, its system for replicating its genetic material had to allow for some random variation in the heritable characteristics of the offspring so that new traits could be selected and lead to the creation of diverse species.
So really, three traits if you will.
1 - genetic information in the form of three chemical sequences.
2 - A system for reproducing that genetic material.
3 - the ability to allow for random varition for the development of new traits.
Now, as the environment changes this is where micro-evolution came in. New generations would develop tools or skills [on the single cell level of course] that would give them greater success in being able to reproduce. Their subsequent generations would also be gifted with these adaptations.
Now, what cause the first nucleic acids, and proteins and other required chemicals to form together.
Knowing full well the howls of outrage I will get for saying this I post my answer here.
Luck.
Out of billions and billions of possible combinations they got put together in just the right amount and at just the right time.
If you want to chalk that luck up to god then I will concede that point to you. Fine. And who knows, maybe that was god. But I also believe that his involvement ended right there.
Mitosis. But mitosis only happens in living things.
But where do the cells get the needed mass for mitosis? This is an example of something very simple becoming something very complex which is the challenge you put before me.
It takes life to produce life; I've never witnessed, and no one on this planet will ever find evidence of anything coming to life from non-living matter.
Good, because the concept of Abiogenesis went the way of the dodo a long time ago and it no where near what evolutionists believe.
So you believe that the stars and planets and elements are living organisms?
Again, clouding the issue. All I said is that we are made of the same stuff as stars. And who are we to decide if stars are concious or not? Perhaps they are and we are just to ignorant to understand them.
Neither am I. I just want you to think about how irrational and illogical the theory of evolution really is.
No more irrational and illogical than believing that some all powerful, mythical, invisible entity merely spoke and everything was created. This is especially imlausible since the very account of creation is contradicted in the Bible.
One section says that god created man than animals then another states that god first made animals and then man.
Are you sure about that? It is just a "theory"...
So is god.
Not only is that a problem with evolution, but so is the fact that life cannot be produced from non-living matter. It's impossible. Evolution can never explain how life arose or was created, or when conciousness came into existence, or account for life being rational and able to experience emotions. How did stars, planets, and elements create life from non-living matter? It's impossible. That's why Evolution is illogical and irrational. It's plain out ridiculus, unless God was involved. Since He is a living Being, He is the perfect compliment to what scientists have found out about evolution and life thus far. He's the missing piece of the evolution puzzle that modern scientists refuse to acknowledge. God is the only explanation to why life exists; why humans are rational, able to experience emotions, and bear conciousness. He is the Life that created life.
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Hmmmm. Let see what other "theory's" have been labeled illogical and irrational and even heretical.
That world is not the center of the universe.
That the world is not flat.
Flight.
That the sound barrier would never be broken.
That man would never be able to harness the power of the atom.
As I said earlier, if you want to call the little think that gave the first push god, so be it. I certainly cannot stop you. But to blankly say that evolution could never happen is just ludicrious.
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