ARGH!!! NOT AGAIN! my post got deleted. here's what i said in a nutshell.
first of all, I've noticed that all the people I've ever talked to who didn't believe in evolution were christians. That shows top-down thinking because scientists wouldn't include the "great flood" (which would have been IMPOSSIBLE)
that site talks about racism and hitler and darwin being a psychotic... that just goes to show
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Quote[/b] ]Most biology textbooks show a glass apparatus in which the precursors for amino acids were boiled and electrically sparked for a week, and sure enough, there were trace amounts of a few amino acids. The implication is that if similar, unthinking processes were continued, then a living cell would evolve. Such logic is like stating that automobiles evolved long ago by means of rubber sap, sand, iron ore, and coal falling into a volcano. The iron ore and the carbon in the coal made steel, the sand melted and made glass, and the sap vulcanized and made rubber. Then after billions and billions of trials and errors, the text may say, there evolved spontaneously better and better pistons, cylinders, whole engines with spark plugs and transmissions, axles on four wheels with rubber tires under bodies of steel with glass windows, windshield wipers, headlights, and tanks full of gasoline. The text might state that the first cell and all life evolved in a similar way.
how life began has nothing to do with evolution.
That analogy is COMPLETELY and utterly ... wrong. The environment they re-created in the lab was like the one in the earth, and amino acids have been found in meteors. so we KNOW they occur naturaly. Besides... there are many enzymes and other things necessary for life that occur naturally without help form life.
I can't find the document (I had already written a response and closed the document window and then the post got deleted) but there was one that said evolution was all by random chance.
That's not ture. natural SELECTION is not random.
It also said that genomes "leap". that's also not true. Evolution is GRADUAL.
They also resort to talking about hitler being an evolutionist and that it leads to racism and abortion and that darwin was supposedly psychotic and that evolution is a RELIGION and not science...
oh please. They also talk about "noah's flood" ... very scientific.
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Quote[/b] ]That marvelous first cell, the story goes, filled the oceans with progeny competing in incredible polysaccharide, lipid, amino acid, nucleotide, and cannibalistic feasts. The predators thereby thinned the soup to the watery oceans we have today while the prey escaped by mystically transmuting themselves into the current complex animals and plants, or perhaps vice versa because no one was there to record it. We are assured by the disciples of Darwin and Huxley that the "once upon a pond" story to obtain a blob of protoplasm is still sufficient for the spontaneous generation of the cell as we know it today.
first of all evolution is NOT about the beginnings of life so this is totally irrelevant to evolution (shows you how educated they are about evolution...)
the first cell wasn't like we know cells today. It was much simpler. and who said it was a "predator"? it was probably chemosynthetic.
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Quote[/b] ]The mutation may confer a benefit in a particular environment, but the overall fitness of the population of one kind of bacterium is decreased as a result of a reduced function of one of the components in its biological pathway.
Evolution isn't about achieving perfection. It's about surviving and having offspring that can do the same. Sometimes you trade things in evolution. like we traded being able to walk upright for lower back pains, and like we traded being able to eat better for having useless wisdom teeth...
I was just skimming around because I have tons of homework to do :-/