I was just reading and noticed this:
7. Evolution cannot explain how life first appeared on earth.
The origin of life remains very much a mystery, but biochemists have learned about how primitive nucleic acids, amino acids and other building blocks of life could have formed and organized themselves into self-replicating, self-sustaining units, laying the foundation for cellular biochemistry. Astrochemical analyses hint that quantities of these compounds might have originated in space and fallen to earth in comets, a scenario that may solve the problem of how those constituents arose under the conditions that prevailed when our planet was young.
Creationists sometimes try to invalidate all of evolution by pointing to science's current inability to explain the origin of life. But even if life on earth turned out to have a nonevolutionary origin (for instance, if aliens introduced the first cells billions of years ago), evolution since then would be robustly confirmed by countless microevolutionary and macroevolutionary studies.
Aliens, huh?
I think a lot of people here would argue that since we don't know how God works (for those of us who acknowledge that he exists), we don't know if maybe he used evolution to create. Nowhere does the Bible describe how He created, only that he created. The Bible doesn't say that he uttered some magic phrase and suddenly life as we know it sprang into being. Evolution takes a lot of time, but it's human time. God is timeless. Maybe we can say that instead of where this article says aliens that we say God.
I think it would take more faith to believe that aliens of a superior, benevolent race transplanted cells into our solar system so many millions of years ago so as to develop a future civilzation than it takes to believe that a loving God created the world.
<obligatory catch phrase> Just my 2 cents </obligatory catch phrase> Cheers!
7. Evolution cannot explain how life first appeared on earth.
The origin of life remains very much a mystery, but biochemists have learned about how primitive nucleic acids, amino acids and other building blocks of life could have formed and organized themselves into self-replicating, self-sustaining units, laying the foundation for cellular biochemistry. Astrochemical analyses hint that quantities of these compounds might have originated in space and fallen to earth in comets, a scenario that may solve the problem of how those constituents arose under the conditions that prevailed when our planet was young.
Creationists sometimes try to invalidate all of evolution by pointing to science's current inability to explain the origin of life. But even if life on earth turned out to have a nonevolutionary origin (for instance, if aliens introduced the first cells billions of years ago), evolution since then would be robustly confirmed by countless microevolutionary and macroevolutionary studies.
Aliens, huh?
I think a lot of people here would argue that since we don't know how God works (for those of us who acknowledge that he exists), we don't know if maybe he used evolution to create. Nowhere does the Bible describe how He created, only that he created. The Bible doesn't say that he uttered some magic phrase and suddenly life as we know it sprang into being. Evolution takes a lot of time, but it's human time. God is timeless. Maybe we can say that instead of where this article says aliens that we say God.
I think it would take more faith to believe that aliens of a superior, benevolent race transplanted cells into our solar system so many millions of years ago so as to develop a future civilzation than it takes to believe that a loving God created the world.
<obligatory catch phrase> Just my 2 cents </obligatory catch phrase> Cheers!
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