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The Origin of Life/Evolution?

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  • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

    Originally posted by Slick Pinkham View Post
    That's an interesting point of view.

    I would instead say that an entrenched belief system is accepted by a great many people as facts that cannot be refuted no matter what, with the threat of eternal damnation to those who dare to use their brain. I don't see a justification for such dogmatic close-mindedness. I find it appalling to see such dogmatic close-mindedness spoon-fed to our children. If you want to home-school your kids and teach them about fairies, dragons, and pixie dust being real, then go right ahead. I will feel sorry for those kids, but in the end maybe they will be able to think for themselves.

    Evolution stands only on evidence, not opinion. It will be a great shame to let those who want to cover up that evidence get their way.
    But creationism isn't taught in public schools. It is taught in parochial schools (.along with many other religeons/theories where my kids went to school). Evolution as the source of mankind stands as opinion that some people wish to claim as fact but that fact has not been proven, it remains a theory. I don't wish to cover up evolution as long as it is presented as a theory and not a fact.
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    • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

      Originally posted by indygeezer View Post
      But creationism isn't taught in public schools.
      since when?

      Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio mandate the teaching of alternatives to evolution. The governor of Texas famously bragged that they teach both creationism and evolution in Texas. Most states that mandate the teaching of evolution leave it entirely up to local school districts and teachers as to whether they comply or not. I have nieces who went to public schools in Virginia who were taught by their public school "science teachers" to not believe anything in their textbook. My wife has relatives in rural Georgia taught the same way. The norm throughout the South at least is to have a textbook saying one thing and a teacher who says something else.

      When I grew up in Indiana (born in the 1960s) I took all of the science classes available to me and apparently not one science or biology teacher (before I was in college) had been briefed on the writings of Darwin (Origin of Species is from 1859). Evolution was never mentioned, not even once, in any public school class that I ever attended. I cannot recall if the textbooks had info. They probably did. The teachers just ignored it.

      Is it any wonder kids in the USA are getting a less-than-3rd-world level education in the sciences?
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      • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

        Taking a nap helped. There is a problem with life being brought here from elsewhere in the universe. Either seeded or a meteor for example. If we are the product of an alien life, then the laws governing life on earth would be those of the alien life.


        In other words exactly what they are now.


        The law of Biogenesis states that life only comes from prior life. So nothing has changed, life can’t arise spontaneously.


        And if life can’t arise spontaneously, we obviously didn’t evolve.

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        • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

          Originally posted by Will Galen View Post
          Taking a nap helped. There is a problem with life being brought here from elsewhere in the universe. Either seeded or a meteor for example. If we are the product of an alien life, then the laws governing life on earth would be those of the alien life.
          ...and the problem with that is....

          Ultimately something had to have created life, somewhere, sometime. The ID theory certainly comes into play at that point when you consider that we can't create life from nothing. My only point was that it wasn't created on earth, and we certainly aren't special in the grand scheme of things.
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          • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

            Originally posted by Will Galen View Post
            And if life can’t arise spontaneously, we obviously didn’t evolve.
            One has nothing to do with the other.

            Evolution is concerned with how life forms arise from other life forms. Evolution is the not the same as abiogenesis. If life got started due to the intervention of some divine power, the theory of evolution would be our best explanation to date for how that life has developed ever since that hypothetical moment of creation of that creature or set of creatures. If life got started due to the intervention of aliens, the theory of evolution would be our best explanation to date for how that life has developed ever since that event. Or if life came from non-life, evolution would tell us what happened next.

            Evolutionary theory has nothing to say about abiogenesis and nothing to say about the origin of matter in the universe i.e. the big bang.

            Origin of Life and Evolution are lumped together in the thread title, suggesting to me that a lot of people (wrongly) think that they are related somehow. If, as I did, you take thread title to mean origin of human life/evolution, then there is a thematic connection.
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            • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

              Originally posted by Kstat View Post
              ...and the problem with that is....

              Ultimately something had to have created life, somewhere, sometime. The ID theory certainly comes into play at that point when you consider that we can't create life from nothing. My only point was that it wasn't created on earth, and we certainly aren't special in the grand scheme of things.
              I don't understand your thinking on your last point. We haven't found life anywhere else, and as you just wrote life was started somewhere. Why not here?

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              • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

                Originally posted by Slick Pinkham View Post
                I can't see how one has anything to do with the other.

                Evolution is concerned with how life forms evolve from other life forms. Evolution is the not the same as abiogenesis. If life got started due to the intervention of some divine power, the theory of evolution would be our best explanation to date for how that life has developed ever since that hypothetical moment of creation.
                When I said, "And if life can't arise spontaneously, we obviously didn't evolve," I meant we had to be created to get here. Most people don't separate the two.

                So both you and Kstat's problem is with the Bible's account of creation? Is that right? Or do you differ from Kstat?

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                • Originally posted by Will Galen View Post
                  I don't understand your thinking on your last point. We haven't found life anywhere else, and as you just wrote life was started somewhere. Why not here?
                  .....because the earth was most likely around long before life appeared, and it coincided with major events and changes to the Earth itself, all of which were fully explainable through science. Earth was originally incapable of supporting any sort of life, until it was.

                  Likewise, saying we haven't found life anywhere yet in the universe is like me never leaving my bedroom and concluding I'm the only human on earth because I don't see any people when I look out of my window, just houses and lights.

                  We can detect millions of planets, but that doesn't mean we can detect life on them.

                  As you said yourself, life can't be created from nothing. Actually, nothing can. So it stands to reason that whenever the universe was formed, life formed with it. It didn't just manifest via god magic. Following that logic, since the earth was around long before life on earth, it had to come from somewhere else.

                  There's no logical reason to believe in god magic causing us to spontaneously manifest on earth, other than really wanting to believe it. It requires a complete suspension of disbelief. As bearbugs made very clear, it's for people who would prefer to let a storybook do their thinking for them.
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                  • And to be clear, Christianity is not on trial here. But genesis simply cannot be taken seriously as it applies to this thread. There is absolutely no science to support it. There isn't even any logic to support it. It's a fairy tale.

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                    • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

                      Originally posted by Kstat View Post
                      .....because the earth was most likely around long before life appeared, and it coincided with major events and changes to the Earth itself, all of which were fully explainable through science. Earth was originally incapable of supporting any sort of life, until it was.
                      So why do you call the creation account a myth, that's what it says too.



                      Likewise, saying we haven't found life anywhere yet in the universe is like me never leaving my bedroom and concluding I'm the only human on earth because I don't see any people when I look out of my window, just houses and lights.

                      We can detect millions of planets, but that doesn't mean we can detect life on them.
                      Fair enough, but although we can't detect life on other planets there are still ways of detecting signs of life. Civilization at least as we know it is noisy, and we can detect noisy patterns at a great distance. Another point is if there was life created before us, wouldn't they know more than us, and be able to detect us? No one has contacted us, which would also lend credence to us being created first.

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                      • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

                        I have no problem with the Bible's account of creation, on a story-telling level.

                        I like the Star Wars books too. I am not inclined to ask the teachers in schools to teach kids to speak Wookie though. I know that sounds flippant, and I don't want to be, since for all I know some relatively fine men wrote down the books of the Bible. The problem is that people have for centuries gotten all wrapped up in those words as being some sort of immutable truths that justify all sorts of beliefs, from women being inherently inferior to men, to slavery being justifiable, to the Earth being flat, to the Earth revolving around the sun, and yes to the Earth being of a certain age. Throughout history we have discarded many of these concepts because we didn't turn off our brains and decide to blindly swear to uphold some words on a page.

                        If you talk to Christians in Rome, London, Berlin, Dublin, and elsewhere you likely can have an intelligent conversation with them about evolutionary theory, which they generally accept. They seem to be incredulous about the inability of Americans to come to terms with evolutionary theory. Of course they are hardly our peers in scientific education, being more than a bit above us in that regard. Our peers, in terms of education of the general public before age 18 in the sciences, are places like Uganda, North Korea, and Iran.
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                        • Originally posted by Will Galen View Post
                          So why do you call the creation account a myth, that's what it says too.




                          There's nothing mysterious of prophetic about that. All it says is that the earth was made and then life put on earth. It would sound silly if you wrote it the other way around.

                          By the way, it also says the earth was created before anything else, which is laughable. Though I suppose a few thousand years ago it made sense for humans to believe that they were gods, and lived in the center of the universe. It makes no sense to believe that now.

                          Originally posted by Will Galen View Post
                          Fair enough, but although we can't detect life on other planets there are still ways of detecting signs of life. Civilization at least as we know it is noisy, and we can detect noisy patterns at a great distance. Another point is if there was life created before us, wouldn't they know more than us, and be able to detect us? No one has contacted us, which would also lend credence to us being created first.
                          All life doesn't grow or evolve at the same rate. Life on earth grows and dies as the climate allows it to. The evolution of life on earth was moving along at a snail's pace until the climate stabilized. It's no different than humanity growing rapidly as a species once their diet improved.

                          Given that earth has been human-free for roughly 99.9999% of its existence, and we've come this far in such an absurdly short time, I fail to see why such importance is being put on the here and now. There may be complex sentient life well out of our detection, and there may be much older, primitive life in our backyard. All we can logically assume is that we're the only life in our solar system of a handful of planets.....in a universe of trillions of them.

                          Maybe in another million years, we'll have colonized the galaxy...or maybe in a thousand years another event will have wiped us off of the earth like the dinosaurs, and another species on another planet will be wondering if they're the only ones out there.
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                          • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

                            http://www.universetoday.com/44713/v...restrial-life/

                            The Catholic Church's stance


                            Vatican Holds Conference on Extraterrestrial Life

                            by Nicholos Wethington on November 10, 2009


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                            Though it may seem an unlikely location to happen upon a conference on astrobiology, the Vatican recently held a “study week” of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials. This follows the statement made last year by the Pope’s chief astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, that the existence of extraterrestrials does not preclude a belief in God, and that it’s a question to be explored by the Catholic Church. The event, put on by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, took place at the Casina Pio IV on the Vatican grounds from November 6-11.

                            The conference was meant to focus on the scientific perspective on the subject of the existence of extraterrestrial life, and pulled in perspectives from atheist scientists and Catholic leaders alike. It was split into eight different segments, starting with a topics about life here on Earth such as the origins of life, the Earth’s habitability through time, and the environment and genomes. Then the detection of life elsewhere, search strategies for extrasolar planets, the formation and properties of extrasolar planets was discussed, culminating in the last segment, intelligence elsewhere and ‘shadow life’ – life with a biochemistry completely different than that found on Earth.


                            Speakers at the event included notable physicist Paul Davies and Jill C. Tarter, the Director of the Center for SETI Research. Numerous astrobiologists and astronomers researching extrasolar planets also were in attendance to give lectures. The whole series of speech abstracts and a list of participants is available in a brochure on the Vatican site, here.

                            The event was held to mark the International Year of Astronomy, and the participants hope to collect the lectures into a book. Father Gabriel Funes, the chief astronomer of the Vatican, said in an interview to the Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano last year:


                            “Just like there is an abundance of creatures on earth, there could also be other beings, even intelligent ones, that were created by God. That doesn’t contradict our faith, because we cannot put boundaries to God’s creative freedom. As saint Francis would say, when we consider the earthly creatures to be our “brothers and sisters”, why couldn’t we also talk about a “extraterrestrial brother”? He would still be part of creation.”

                            Even with the discovery of over 400 exoplanets, the question of extraterrestrial life still remains to be answered in our own Solar System. It is a pertinent question for the religious and non-religious alike. Though it wasn’t answered at this most recent conference, the existence of life outside what we know here on Earth has an equal impact on the findings of science as it does the meaning of religion. This event certainly brought the two under the same roof for what were surely some interesting and fruitful conversations.

                            Source: Physorg, Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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                            Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/44713/v...#ixzz2StLwEO7A
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                            • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

                              This argument breaks down into two very basic elements. The people who are determined to quote the Bible will never believe in evolution or anything that contradicts Genesis. Facts and evidence are meaningless to them. The people who do believe in evolution have looked at the evidence in the fossil record and observations of life on the planet right now and they can see evolution at work. Facts and evidence do matter to that group. Some of the first group will bend evolution to fit in their religious views. Some of the former will modify their religious ideas to fit the facts of evolution.

                              No meeting of the minds will ever occur. The best that can happen is that they accept their differences. The world has already accepted evolution and rejected divine intervention except among religious fanatics.

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                              • Re: The Origin of Life/Evolution?

                                Some of your comments are needlessly inflammatory. At the very least they sound put-downish and judgemental. You lose credibility points for this.
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