The Primordial Goo
| January 15, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
In light of the challenge proposed to ID in the previous post (i.e., “The Intelligent Design Zoo”), here is a parallel challenge directed at materialistic evolutionists: Take the goo depicted in the photo below, autoclave it until none of the organic material here belongs to living cells (i.e., till all the cells are dead), and then try to reconstitute life without teleological guidance. Origin-of-life researchers typically focus on trying to obtain more complicated biomolecules from simpler ones. Here you’ve got all the complicated biomolecules you could ever want. Go to it — show us how, out of the material here once autoclaved, to get a living being that has all the characteristics we ordinarily attribute to life (i.e., reproduction, growth, metabolism, homeostasis, stimulus-response repetoire, adaptability to changing environments, maintenance of organizational boundaries).
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Quick flash back to the homo sapiens – Neanderthal subtopic — check out this latest not-so-totally new development:
http://today.reuters.com/news/.....038;rpc=22
And one fascinating excerpt: “It could be “evolutionary reversal” he said — humans changing back into archaic forms.”
“Evolutionary reversal”???? The Materialists have added a new tool to their growing kit?? Or maybe I missed the newsflash.
bfast,
Your blender motor burned out? Wow, proof that it wasn’t really designed. Not for clay and silly putty, at any rate. Everyone knows that silly putty evolved right around the Cambrian period, give or take a few billion years.
LOL
Fools! Don’t you know about the Hiesenberg uncertainty principal? As long as someone is watching life will never spontaneously happen. Quit looking!
Ekstasis
“They could also reflect admixture with Neanderthal populations as modern humans spread through western Eurasia” Zilhao said in a statement.
Stop trying to derail the ID movement.
Meaning what?
Meaning perhaps the Neanderthal and modern Humans interbred.
“It could reflect a case in which ancient traits reappear in a modern human, or it could indicate a mixture of populations, Zilhao said. Or it simply may be that science hasn’t been able to study enough early modern people to understand their diversity.”
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2.....ls,00.html
Ekstasis:
I went to the link you posted. The title of the article is:
“Skull shows possible human/Neanderthal breeding”
… but what I found interesting was the inset photo of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – within the article.
hmmm…