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[_ Old Earth _] The beginning of life.

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am not in a Christian forum to look at anything from a non-believers viewpoint. Non believers should be guests in a Chrisitian forum not snakes taking it over.

It's kind of ironic, because this sort of ignorance is what kept me a Christian for so long...

And why are you so demeaning to non-Christians? I'm sure your attitude towards us is what Jesus meant when he said "a new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. All men will know that you are my disciples if you love one another" (John 13:34, 35)
 
We don't really need the viewpoints of the enemies of God in Chrisitan forum the entire world system crams their manure down our throats every day in the media and pollutes our children in the idoctrination centers known as the public school system.

Really? Because this seems to be a Creation/Evolution board, and since the majority of Christians do not believe in evolution and the majority of those who do are either not very versed in it or are not very argumentative, I find it almost imperative for non-Christians to partake in the Creation/Evolution section of the Christian forum in order for the Creation/Evolution section to thrive...
 
Tuatha'an,

Great links. I remember reading about it somewhere but couldn't find it.

Bibleberan says
Cloning is taking life to beget life. You haven't a clue do you?

You don't have to kill to clone. It requires DNA. Not killing.

BL says
Life is much more than chemical reactions

Actually, when you break it down, thats about all it is.
 
Some times a little letter makes a big difference.

I didn't say that you have to kill something to make a clone.

Producing a clone is taking life to produce life not taking a life.

Cloning requires life and intelligence.

Life has never come from non-life.

On the Miller & Urrey experiments.

Stanley L. Miller and Harold Urrey never produced life but only the basic building blocks of life. These experiments which required living and intelligent beings did not produce anything living.

No matter how much manipulation of words evolutionists use the evidence that everything that exists was the result of an intelligent creator is overwhelming.

I grow bored...

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I grow bored...

Low attention span? There there.

Stanley L. Miller and Harold Urrey never produced life but only the basic building blocks of life.

So, you admit that it has been demonstrated how abiogenesis could have occured. Now we are onto evolution.
 
B like a serpent "twists" my words.

B twists the truth like his father.

"yea hath God said".

"So, you admit that it has been demonstrated how abiogenesis could have occured. Now we are onto evolution."

bibleberean,

I "admitted" no such thing. Please slither around someone else. :D

Sssssss!
 
Stanley L. Miller and Harold Urrey produced . . . . the basic building blocks of life.

Your words (paraphrased). I twisted nothing. You said it.

Shall we move onto evolution?
 
B said:
Stanley L. Miller and Harold Urrey produced . . . . the basic building blocks of life.

Your words (paraphrased). I twisted nothing. You said it.

Shall we move onto evolution?

That is what I said.

This is what you said the words meant...

"So, you admit that it has been demonstrated how abiogenesis could have occured. Now we are onto evolution."

bibleberean answers:

I did not agree to anything of the kind. You are just like your dad... :D

Ssssss...


Please, slither on to any topic you want.

I have a new policy of no longer directly conversing with "hardened atheists".
 
I did not agree to anything of the kind. You are just like your dad...

God the father? Hahahaha...don't go around calling people the spawn of Satan because you're backed into a corner...

And, by your admitting that the Urey-Miller experiments showed that the basic building blocks of life can be created from non-life, you are also admitting the possibilty of abiogenesis. It's that simple. Don't make posts if you can't deal with the reprocussions or are not intelligent enough to understand them.
 
bibleberean said:
I have a new policy of no longer directly conversing with "hardened atheists".

:smt024 Dear bibleberean,please don't let these atheists get to you.
They need the gospel more than anyone else on earth. Don't leave them alone to themselves if you don't have to. This is not an atheists message
board. Share the gospel even if they can't handle it.
They claim to believe in philosophy but they are predjudice against the
philosophy in the bible. Thats not right.
This atheist is playing a game with you. He's easy to defeat.
God wants us to teach them the truth,but if they don't listen to us,
remember that they will face greater punishment for it.
bibleberean,if you look up the information about Christian Scientists
who don't support evolution,you'll have a much better understanding
at what satan is trying to accomplish through these individuals. He is
actually getting them prepared to accept pagan religion because there
is no way he's going to let them get away with not worshiping him.
Atheism had it's season in the sun,now it's the end times so satan is
priming up his stooges for false religion.
Please hang in there. If you cannot,I understand.
 
keebs said:
I did not agree to anything of the kind. You are just like your dad...

God the father? Hahahaha...don't go around calling people the spawn of Satan because you're backed into a corner...

And, by your admitting that the Urey-Miller experiments showed that the basic building blocks of life can be created from non-life, you are also admitting the possibilty of abiogenesis. It's that simple. Don't make posts if you can't deal with the reprocussions or are not intelligent enough to understand them.

:smt035 He's right however,you are the son of the devil only much
less intelligent than even your father is,because at least your Daddy knows and believes in God! Just because someone is too classy to
debate heathens is no reason to claim that they are not intelligent.
Is bibleberean a threat to you? Calling bibleberean names is just childish
of you,so now I know much more about you.
Keep believing in your fairytale,and don't forget your pacifier when you
leave.
 
So, intelligence is based on religious belief? Hahaha after a statement like that, one would be inclined to believe the converse...
 
blueeyeliner said:
bibleberean said:
I have a new policy of no longer directly conversing with "hardened atheists".

:smt024 Dear bibleberean,please don't let these atheists get to you.
They need the gospel more than anyone else on earth. Don't leave them alone to themselves if you don't have to. This is not an atheists message
board. Share the gospel even if they can't handle it.
They claim to believe in philosophy but they are predjudice against the
philosophy in the bible. Thats not right.
This atheist is playing a game with you. He's easy to defeat.
God wants us to teach them the truth,but if they don't listen to us,
remember that they will face greater punishment for it.
bibleberean,if you look up the information about Christian Scientists
who don't support evolution,you'll have a much better understanding
at what satan is trying to accomplish through these individuals. He is
actually getting them prepared to accept pagan religion because there
is no way he's going to let them get away with not worshiping him.
Atheism had it's season in the sun,now it's the end times so satan is
priming up his stooges for false religion.
Please hang in there. If you cannot,I understand.

Don't worry I think they would be funny if I wasn't concerned about where their souls could be spending eternity.

Here is some information on the Urrey Miller test.

There are no reputable scientists that believe life came from this experiment.

Taken from the Darwinism refuted site.

http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/molecul ... gy_09.html

"This experiment aroused great excitement among evolutionists, and was promoted as an outstanding success. Moreover, in a state of intoxicated euphoria, various publications carried headlines such as "Miller creates life." However, what Miller had managed to synthesize was only a few inanimate molecules.


Encouraged by this experiment, evolutionists immediately produced new scenarios. Stages following the development of amino acids were hurriedly hypothesized. Supposedly, amino acids had later united in the correct sequences by accident to form proteins. Some of these proteins which emerged by chance formed themselves into cell membrane-like structures which "somehow" came into existence and formed a primitive cell. These cells then supposedly came together over time to form multicellular living organisms.
However, Miller's experiment has since proven to be false in many respects.


Miller's experiment sought to prove that amino acids could form on their own in primordial earth-like conditions, but it contains inconsistencies in a number of areas:

1- By using a mechanism called a "cold trap," Miller isolated the amino acids from the environment as soon as they were formed. Had he not done so, the conditions in the environment in which the amino acids were formed would immediately have destroyed these molecules.

Doubtless, this kind of conscious isolation mechanism did not exist on the primordial earth. Without such a mechanism, even if one amino acid were obtained, it would immediately have been destroyed. The chemist Richard Bliss expresses this contradiction by observing that "Actually, without this trap, the chemical products, would have been destroyed by the energy source."254 And, sure enough, in his previous experiments, Miller had been unable to make even one single amino acid using the same materials without the cold trap mechanism.

2- The primordial atmosphere that Miller attempted to simulate in his experiment was not realistic. In the 1980s, scientists agreed that nitrogen and carbon dioxide should have been used in this artificial environment instead of methane and ammonia.

Miller and Urey imitated the ancient atmosphere on the Earth with a mixture of methane and ammonia. ...However in the latest studies, it has been understood that the Earth was very hot at those times, and that it was composed of melted nickel and iron. Therefore, the chemical atmosphere of that time should have been formed mostly of nitrogen (N2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O). However these are not as appropriate as methane and ammonia for the production of organic molecules.

The American scientists J. P. Ferris and C. T. Chen repeated Miller's experiment with an atmospheric environment that contained carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, and water vapor, and were unable to obtain even a single amino acid molecule

bibleberean adds:

Let alone produced a living cell.

3- atmosphere at the time when they were thought to have beeAnother important point that invalidates Miller's experiment is that there was enough oxygen to destroy all the amino acids in the n formed.

This fact, overlooked by Miller, is revealed by the traces of oxidized iron found in rocks that are estimated to be 3.5 billion years old.257
There are other findings showing that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere at that time was much higher than originally claimed by evolutionists. Studies also show that the amount of ultraviolet radiation to which the earth was then exposed was 10,000 times more than evolutionists' estimates. This intense radiation would unavoidably have freed oxygen by decomposing the water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

This situation completely negates Miller's experiment, in which oxygen was completely neglected. If oxygen had been used in the experiment, methane would have decomposed into carbon dioxide and water, and ammonia into nitrogen and water."

For full article go to ...

http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/molecul ... gy_09.html

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Psalms 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
 
bibleberean said:
Psalms 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

:smt023 AMEN & AMEN!
 
That's extremely irrelevant due to the fact that protocells can evolve into cells.

It is proposed that protocells can macroevolve into actual cells... problem is that it has never been observed to my knowledge. Not only has it never been observed, but other than filling in gap in a theory, there is no evidence that "protocells" have ever evolved - so its different than looking back at the fossils and citing evidence for evolution or looking at the red shift and citing evidence for an ancient universe.


Checked it out and found quite a few flaws in it. First off, you should never assume that anyone who doesn't think abiogenesis is possible is a creationist. Second, titling your article "Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Probability of Abiogenesis Calculations." Somehow that makes you look a wee bit bigotted.

Now on to more pertinent mistakes inside the article. First it states that all people who disagree with the abiogenesis theory have made one of several mistakes which they list. I challenge you to show me one of those "mistakes" that I fall into based on what I had to say on the subject. Second, the article depends on the existence of protobacteria, protobionts/progenotes, and even more simple cellular bodies - all of which have never been observed nor have any evidence of having ever existed other than having been invented. Keep in mind that any idea that someone comes up with, until shown to be unoriginal, is an invention - so until a dragon is proven to have existed, it is simply an invention of someone's mind intsead of an invention of nature.

Moreover, the article assumes that life can exist with less than 256 proteins, and while this may be possible, its unknown. Even limiting the number down to 100 leaves you with a highly complex strand.


Life is defined as:

1. Metabolism. Consists of catabolism -- breaking down molecules to get energy -- and anabolism -- making bigger molecules from smaller ones.
2. Response to stimuli
3. Growth
4. Reproduction

I am not sure that protocells meet the criterium for number two. Perhaps you could prove me wrong?

BTW, forget the probability equations showing life to be "impossible". They are based on Garbage In and therefore got Garbage Out.

I think if you'll review this thread, I did my own quick calcuations based on B's fantasy number that he gave me. I just did a quick run down of probabilities and was very generous. So since my estimations were quick and original, I would like for you to show mistakes within them before saying that the data was garbage.

For the Christians here, God did not create life by zapping it into existence by some miracle. Instead, God created life by chemistry.

At some point you have to understand that a "zap" is necessitated as the universe cannot be self-created (2nd law of thermodynamics), and it cannot be eternal (law of cause and effect).

Referring to life only being chemical reactions:
Actually, when you break it down, thats about all it is.

A good comparison to that statement would be something like this:

When you break it down, people are just cells.

The problem is though, that people are not just cells... because the same could be said of any organism. One must learn what differentiates people from dogs and include that in their basis - just as one must know what the difference is between a fire and a protazoa.


Talking to Bibleberean about Harold Urrey, B said:
...you admit that it has been demonstrated how abiogenesis could have occured.

Unfortunately, this is another example of a bit of disingenuity. I think B understands, as do I, that bricks down equate a house and connected proteins don't equate a life.

And, by your admitting that the Urey-Miller experiments showed that the basic building blocks of life can be created from non-life...

As I stated above, acknowledging that bricks can be put together does not acknowledge that a house can be created. You might think it does, but then I might say, "well, what about the mortar."

Alrighty, I think that gets them all,

BL
 
Now on to more pertinent mistakes inside the article. First it states that all people who disagree with the abiogenesis theory have made one of several mistakes which they list. I challenge you to show me one of those "mistakes" that I fall into based on what I had to say on the subject. Second, the article depends on the existence of protobacteria, protobionts/progenotes, and even more simple cellular bodies - all of which have never been observed nor have any evidence of having ever existed other than having been invented. Keep in mind that any idea that someone comes up with, until shown to be unoriginal, is an invention - so until a dragon is proven to have existed, it is simply an invention of someone's mind intsead of an invention of nature.

You didn't include simultaneous trials nor did you consider the possibility of an extremely simplified organism due to pre-biotic conditions on earth.

Moreover, the article assumes that life can exist with less than 256 proteins, and while this may be possible, its unknown. Even limiting the number down to 100 leaves you with a highly complex strand.

We haven't observed them because they were only able to form in what is believed to be the atmosphere during the "young years" of the earth...

[/quote]Second, the article depends on the existence of protobacteria, protobionts/progenotes, and even more simple cellular bodies - all of which have never been observed nor have any evidence of having ever existed other than having been invented.
Really? I don't know where in the world you got your information from, but we know for a fact that protobacteria (more commonly known as "purple bacteria" or "proteobacteria") exists. In fact, here's a picture:

purplebacteria.jpg
 
Referring to life only being chemical reactions:
Quote:
Actually, when you break it down, thats about all it is.


A good comparison to that statement would be something like this:

When you break it down, people are just cells.

The problem is though, that people are not just cells... because the same could be said of any organism.


So people are not cells? What? I'm talking breaking it right down. Leave a 'soul' out of it, just look at it broken down. We are the same, on a basic level as any other living thing on the planet. To claim we are special 'or in the likeness of god' is plain ignorance.
 
You didn't include simultaneous trials nor did you consider the possibility of an extremely simplified organism due to pre-biotic conditions on earth.

I worked with the lightning strike hypothesis B presented me, and I was only considering the most simplified organism that one could imagine.

We haven't observed them because they were only able to form in what is believed to be the atmosphere during the "young years" of the earth...

And that's a good hypothesis, but unfortunately, science can never reach a conclusion on that hypothesis as we don't have any evidence that these creatures existed.

I don't know where in the world you got your information from, but we know for a fact that protobacteria (more commonly known as "purple bacteria" or "proteobacteria") exists.

I'm sorry, I thought you were referring to "protobacteria" as the precursor to modern bacteria. I have never heard "proteobacteria" referred to as "protobacteria" before. Proteobacteria, a subgroup within bacteria, include purple bacteria, but not all proteobacteria are purple bacteria (only the ones that can perform photosynthesis are referred to as "purple bacteria"). Proteobacteria have never been shown to be an evolutionary ancestor to bacteria as proteos are considered part of the bacteria group and no fossil or other evidence has ever been shown to strengthen that argument.

You might also be interested to learn that proteobacteria are separated into five different groups. I believe scientists labele each group after a greek letter... but that could be another group?

So to conclude, I simply thought you were referring to another invented creature like protobionts, not to a group of bacteria which is part of the family of bacteria, coexists with all the other groups of bacteria, and has no evidence that it is any more primitive than other groups of bacteria. IF you would like to take that route, we can discuss evidence of proteobacteria being an evolutionary link in the abiogenesis theory, but I'm not sure you want to do that.


So people are not cells? What? I'm talking breaking it right down.

People are made of cells, but that's not really breaking it down. We could say that people are atoms, couldn't we? But that would be silly - after all, so is a desk and we know that there is a significant difference. I could say also that people are just cells, but that would be silly since squids are also just cells and we know that there is a significant difference.

If you had said that organisms are just cells, I would have agreed. But you need to include the differentiating factor in human organisms and other organisms before you can say "people are just..." Because otherwise you have failed to truly nail down what people are. Is this making sense?

And either way, if you want to follow your logic, obviously cells can be broken down further.


Leave a 'soul' out of it, just look at it broken down.

It would be silly to include something like the soul, being supernatural, in a discussion about science, which can only observe the natural.

We are the same, on a basic level as any other living thing on the planet.

Our physicality is made of atoms, just like every other piece of matter.

To claim we are special 'or in the likeness of god' is plain ignorance.

Well we do have access to higher thought - and that seems to be pretty special (a.k.a. unique). But as far as the idea that we are made in the image of God, I think you would have to accept that a soul exists to be able to accept that we are made in the image of God.

Surely you didn't think that this reference in the Bible refers to us looking like God physically, did you?

BL
 
we don't have any evidence that these creatures existed.

A man of faith talking about evidence? Interesting. You are aware, of course, that there is absolutely no evidence for you entire belief system, which hinges on a talking snake.
 
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