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Originally Posted by PRB
That is some huge supposition right there......
Has anyone observed the creation of life as you mention it....self assembled?
Inert to living thru the process you describe? I find that most interesting.
Is evolution controlled by any dynamic....no evolution, slow evolution, whiz bang overnight construct of complex elements?
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The answer to the first two questions is of course - No. But is it possible? Yes, as the experimental evidence suggests. But because the experimental observation for the creation of life has yet to be duplicated in the laboratory, does that mean we should discard the theory altogether and replace it with something else? Should we also discard Newtons theory on gravitational attraction because it fails at the quantum level? Should we also discard Einstein's theory of relativity because we have not discerned the cosmological constant? (He himself rejected that idea.)
One of the subtle elements of Darwin's conjecture is that it inferred a process of inheritable traits that can be preferentially selected for depending upon the conditions, i.e. natural selection. Mendel's work inferred the same thing and it was 100 years later before we understood what it was.
I think the more interesting and perhaps relevant question is - why is the Darwinian theory so threatening to some and so vehemently defended by others? Not, is it valid science? To pursue that line of thinking we will need to discuss the 'apparent' conflict between faith and science. Frankly, I don't believe that these are inconsistent with each other at all. In fact, I will argue that in the end they are entirely consistent and converge on the same fundamental truths that are very, very humbling.