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Originally posted by Scoutmaster: I asked him if, given billions of years of evolution, a jet plane could form itself on our street, fully fueled, and take off? He replied that if the matter and energy are "destined" for such, then yes, it could happen. I asked where "destiny" comes from. He remembered he was late for an appointment. Smile


Airplanes are not living creatures, so they can’t evolve. However, the humans needed to build one certainly did and could do so again.


That illustration is used to show the problem of randomly creating a complex system. A simple protein is a chain of about 150 amino acids arranged in a specific way. If you arrange it incorrectly it won’t fold into the correct shape and, consequently, it won’t function. It also has to be left handed and formed with peptide bonds. The probability of that happening at random is extremely low. But there is a chance, right? Yes, but you’ve only created a protein. For it to do anything it needs a system for decoding and replicating within which to act - mRNA, ribosomes, etc. so just creating a protein isn’t enough - it needs to happen together with a bunch of other complicated things to work. It’s like randomly creating a software program - certainly possible but useless without a computer to run it. The probability of randomly creating both the software and the computer, at the same time and in the same place, is so high it’s essentially impossible.

You correctly point out that a jet is not a living thing - it’s used to illustrate the point that you can’t use evolution to explain the origin of life because, by definition, there was no living thing for the first living thing to evolve from.

This isn’t a bunch of creationist voodoo. Secular scientists have been wrestling with this problem since not long after DNA was understood. Francis Crick noted it early on and a MIT had a conference about it in 1964. The calculations keep changing because we keep learning more about how complicated cells really are.

Again, I’m not saying this proves scientifically what did or didn’t happen. What it does prove is that the statement “Life randomly emerged from a prebiotic soup” is built on an extraordinary set of assumptions that we can’t even begin to substantiate.
 
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2) best theory so far.
 
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I believe that there is a Divine Creator...I also believe that God could have worked through the process of evolution.
I also believe that my human limitations make it impossible to know the answer(s).


Sums up my thoughts pretty well. I believe in a life after death, and I feel (hope) that once my consciousness is freed from the limitations of my human brain, things will make more sense.
 
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2) then humans made up the concept of "gods" to explain things they were unable to find answers to.


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God, I have no doubt.

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Again, I’m not saying this proves scientifically what did or didn’t happen. What it does prove is that the statement “Life randomly emerged from a prebiotic soup” is built on an extraordinary set of assumptions that we can’t even begin to substantiate.


Makes sense, the odds are infinitesimal. It is true, scientifically, one can't prove God exists. And, one cannot prove, scientifically, that God doesn't exist.




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And this evolution buisness,
How long does evolution take any way?

How many bazillion years does it take for humans to do this evolving?

Man has been eating, pooping and sleeping since for ever,
Oh blah, blah, blah, using tools

Big effen deal.

So what's it take for the humans to get some evolving?





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2. There are plenty of breadcrumbs to follow in the fossil record the prove it.
 
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And this evolution buisness,
How long does evolution take any way?

The general scientific consensus is 4 billion years.



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In my not-so-humble opinion, #7 is the only honest answer.

I respect everyone's right to subscribe to #1 or #2, but "believing" something and "knowing" something are two entirely different things.




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Personally, I think God created the earth and all its flora and fauna on Monday through Saturday, then went out for a bender with his bros on Saturday night. When he came in hung over to the max on Sunday, he looked at his ToDo list and all that was left was 'man'. And this is what we ended up with.

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Something like that... I do think that God has a sense of humor.

Actually, I think both of these are true:
1) God created us.
2) We evolved through evolution.
They are not mutually exclusive. Did it all happen in a week? What's time to an eternal being?



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#7

I don't know, and neither does any other human in this existence.
You can believe anything you want, but that's faith - not proof of any specific cause.



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The white mice.




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#1.

I doubt my understanding of God.
God does not doubt His understanding of me.

For that, I am grateful, and content that He is first in all things.

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To quote the old "Gunsmoke" episode:

"The world began the day I was born.."

(My granddaughters both firmly believe this about their grandfather - and who am I to dispute their faith!)
 
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God is #1 !
 
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God.
He will give me the answer to this question and many others, when he knows I will be able to understand his answer.


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^^^ Me too!!


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