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Dirty Name · Sep 28, 2005, 03:11 pm

While I agree that evolution is more than a mere "theory," it utterly fails to explain the very existence of life in the first place.

Once I get past the huge hurdle that "matter" simply existed throughout infinity, I'm face to face with the "Big Bang Theory" that says our entire universe was once compressed into a super dense, tiny speck smaller than the head of a pin - and this tiny speck suddenly exploded into planets and whatnot, similar to a kernel of popcorn...never mind the fact that the "Big Bang Theory" sounds suspiciously like Genesis 1:1.

Mmmkay. So let's say we accept that. We still have yet another major hurdle to leap: life coming into existence all by itself, with no outside influences other than seismic, elemental and weather forces.

So now what is required is that over the next billion or so years, various elements floated about as flotsam and jetsam, too and fro, until all of a sudden a few key chemicals came into contact with one another and combined in such a way - perhaps with the help of an electrical discharge or something - and a microscopic living organism is produced. And that this organism then began multiplying and evolving and growing until viola! It becomes a single-cell animal, a paramecium. Then, this paramecium evolves into a more advanced, multi-celled creature, until the point at which these life forms become "intelligent." And then, they evolve further until fish becomes reptile, reptile becomes mammal, mammal becomes monkey, and monkey becomes man.

I guess my point is that it seems a bit more of a stretch to me than just believing in God.

Here's the real kicker - we're expected to believe all this happened in the natural world, yet man, with his powerful computers, Harvard education, cutting-edge science, knowledge of chemistry, electricity, and biology STILL can't create life in a controlled laboratory setting:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/...ngLifeina.html

FYI, the article is 9 years old, at the time, he'd been at it for 10 years... in 2001, he stated that "...synthesising life was not yet a foreseeable reality..." and so the clock keeps ticking. It's been almost 20 years now, and still no "life."

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Dirty Name The Truth Posts: 1,723	The Magical Mystery of Life = Creationism While I agree that evolution is more than a mere "theory," it utterly fails to explain the very existence of life in the first place. Once I get past the huge hurdle that "matter" simply existed throughout infinity, I'm face to face with the "Big Bang Theory" that says our entire universe was once compressed into a super dense, tiny speck smaller than the head of a pin - and this tiny speck suddenly exploded into planets and whatnot, similar to a kernel of popcorn...never mind the fact that the "Big Bang Theory" sounds suspiciously like Genesis 1:1. Mmmkay. So let's say we accept that. We still have yet another major hurdle to leap: life coming into existence all by itself, with no outside influences other than seismic, elemental and weather forces. So now what is required is that over the next billion or so years, various elements floated about as flotsam and jetsam, too and fro, until all of a sudden a few key chemicals came into contact with one another and combined in such a way - perhaps with the help of an electrical discharge or something - and a microscopic living organism is produced. And that this organism then began multiplying and evolving and growing until viola! It becomes a single-cell animal, a paramecium. Then, this paramecium evolves into a more advanced, multi-celled creature, until the point at which these life forms become "intelligent." And then, they evolve further until fish becomes reptile, reptile becomes mammal, mammal becomes monkey, and monkey becomes man. I guess my point is that it seems a bit more of a stretch to me than just believing in God. Here's the real kicker - we're expected to believe all this happened in the natural world, yet man, with his powerful computers, Harvard education, cutting-edge science, knowledge of chemistry, electricity, and biology STILL can't create life in a controlled laboratory setting: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/...ngLifeina.html FYI, the article is 9 years old, at the time, he'd been at it for 10 years... in 2001, he stated that "...synthesising life was not yet a foreseeable reality..." and so the clock keeps ticking. It's been almost 20 years now, and still no "life." The Secular Case Against Gay Marriage: http://www.volconvo.com/forums/socie...tml#post348891 Last edited by Dirty Name; Sep 28, 2005 at 03:19 pm.