Re: What are the evolutionists hiding?



On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:14:02 -0400, "Robert J. Kolker"
<nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Logos wrote:
>
>> Evolutionists would like for you to believe that life sprang spontaneously
>> from non-life, almost by magic.
>
>Actually the ToE says nothing of the kind. It says life has become
>modified over time since it originally apeared and it offers a theory as
>to how that happens. ToE does not address the problem of abiogenisis.
>
>The anti-evolutionists have trundled out this stinking carnard since
>1859. It was false when Slippery Sam Wilberforce invoked it and it is
>false now.

Sorry, that answer simply doesn't work. What you say is technically
true about how the "Theory of Evolution" is defined. However it is
quite true that people who understand that evolution of life obeys
natural laws as described by TOE also, in fact, almost universally
believe that abiogenesis occurred by natural laws so that life did
arise spontaneously from non-life. You can't get around that fact
simply by arguing that the subject has a different name.

There are far better ways to answer the query.

.



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