Organic material found on Mercury

[The Comrade]

[uebermann]

[The Comrade]

that's not what i said nor implied. as i stated earlier, there are probably a dozen or more different models for origination of life on earth. it's not a single monolithic theory that has persisted from the start.

[eynon81]

[Spider]

Well, evolution stands apart from theories of origin. Leaving that aside, I don't see much of a conflict between evolution and creationism. Using origin theories as a casus belli against evolution is kinda apples and oranges to my thinking...

[WizardfromOz]

[Spider]

Point I'm making is that evolution deals strictly with things already alive and changing. As a matter of basic cause and effect...common sense I day to say....evolution has to be happening just as surely as water flows downhill. Its just how the universe is put together.

Origin theories don't actually need to work on evolutionary principals, they just need to have an outcome that leads to evolution once the spark has been struck. I think its an important distinction. Yes, I'm being diplomatic. But I think of evolution as something akin to photosynthesis in terms of legitimacy. Creation on the other hand doesn't conflict with evolution. Be it the hand of God or abiogenesis that set things in motion to begin with, things will still by necessity evolve just the same.

I think they covered this in Master and Commander.

[WizardfromOz]

[Spider]

If they want to deny evolution (or photosynthesis), they can't blame it on their religion. Its their own ideology. Unless there is some verse somewhere in the Bible that says that all organisms are forever frozen in their current states that I'm not aware of. Which wouldn't make sense, after thousands of years of selective breeding prior to the Bible.

Fundamentalism is dangerous enough, but I'd wager more than half of it isn't biblical literalism at all, but ideologically motivated interpretation.

[WizardfromOz]