[CS-FSLUG] Intelligent design...

[Timothy Butler]

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> Here is the problem with that statement: "try to create life". The  
> moment a scientist creates life, all they do is prove us  
> creationists correct. There really is no possible way to prove  
> evolution.

     Well, I don't think I'd agree with that. I don't think it is  
possible for abiogenesis to occur by random, but I think it is  
possible that (if the theory is correct) you could prove it possible.  
Theoretically, if you put the right concentrations of stuff in the  
fake "atmosphere" and primordial soup, then ionize it with a fake  
electrical storm, you are suppose to get life.

     If that worked, they could prove it. The problem is that in the  
present attempts, they did get life (as I recall), but it appears to  
have been bacteria that contaminated the experiment, not actually  
something created. The bigger problem, though, is that the chances of  
such conditions occurring in the wild is even less likely. :-) But,  
the thing is, Genesis tells us God made Adam from earth, so  
essentially that's not really different from what scientists claim  
possible, other than that they refuse to admit an intelligent force  
behind it.

     And, then comes Nathan's point: they have to point out how it  
wasn't done intelligently... which, if they thought that, would be true.

     -Tim

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