juliaoceania
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As someone who does not believe that evolution is incongruous with an omnipotent creator I have to say that evolution is a theory. It is a good theory. It has much substantiation, but there are still some unknowns to how life truly started, where the spark of life comes from. There is plenty enough room on this message board to address what he said, because we truly do not know the mechanisms that caused life. If it were as scientists suggest, a change reaction of amino acids, well we have never recreated it in the lab, and that to me is telling, if that was how it happened then science should be able to recreate life from amino acids and they can't I believe you might productively examine the science of Abiogenesis to seek answers to your spark of life question. The formation of life from amino acids, or more properly DNA has taken at least 3 Billion years. Your assertion that scientists should be able to replicate the process in the lab is a wee bit of a stretch imo. Actually, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey did find amino acids were formed when in 1953 they passed a 50,000 volt spark through a mixture of gases they hypothesized could represent the earth's early environment. They were piggybacking on the work of a Russian scientist Alexander Oparin from 1924. Naturally, as in all scientific work, controversy abounds. Nevertheless the task was done and research continues. Here is a link if you are interested. Once the right conditions are in place it does not take three billion years for life to be sparked, it only takes an instant... setting up those conditions is what took millions and millions of years. I am familiar with the experiments you list, but they did not create life. They did not create an organism that consumes, grows, and reproduces. This is something scientists have been trying to do for a very long time (the origin of Frankenstein). I am not saying that they will never do it, but for human beings to believe there was some larger consciousness that sparked the life in the first place is not a "far out" or "ignorant" idea. I mean, scientists, if they spark life, well they will be the "creators" of it... they will become the gods they wish to disprove... quite ironic
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