Re: Evolution
There aren't fossils but we do have tangible evidence. What is generally accepted is this: before life started, the Earth's seas were filled with methane and ammonia. When lighting struck that sea - which it often did, because the atmosphere of early Earth was chaotic - those molecules fused to create organic compounds. Organic compounds fused to form single-cell bacteria... and the rest is history.
We know this works because we replicated that scenario in a laboratory and we did create organic compounds (amino acids and nucleotides, the building blocks of proteins and DNA) from nonliving materials. It's been done and seen by human eyes. So, yeah. Fossils aren't the only kind of physical evidence.
This is what I don't understand: it's your prerogative, of course, to believe that randomness does not exist, but then you have to explain why people are born with genetic defects. If there is no randomness, why are people afflicted with defects?
EDIT: Wow, um, I think a few people in this thread really misunderstand what evolution is and what the theory even says...
Originally posted by Celtic Tiger
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We know this works because we replicated that scenario in a laboratory and we did create organic compounds (amino acids and nucleotides, the building blocks of proteins and DNA) from nonliving materials. It's been done and seen by human eyes. So, yeah. Fossils aren't the only kind of physical evidence.
This is what I don't understand: it's your prerogative, of course, to believe that randomness does not exist, but then you have to explain why people are born with genetic defects. If there is no randomness, why are people afflicted with defects?
EDIT: Wow, um, I think a few people in this thread really misunderstand what evolution is and what the theory even says...
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