Evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, April 18, 2009, 15:22 (5494 days ago) @ dhw

Let me repeat yet again that the point in dispute is not evolution but abiogenesis ... i.e. long before there were hairy coats. Perhaps it's no problem for you to believe that chance could bring inanimate globules of matter to life, enable them to replicate, and at the same time endow them with a code which in due course would bring about adaptation and complexity. But I just can't take that leap of faith. - Bravo!!! It takes a faith equal to a whole religous theology to accept George's version of the miraculous birth of abiogenesis as he describes it. And the fact that both of you blithely use hemogloben as a talking point for how easily evolution does its evolving indicates you do not know the following: The amino acid sequences in hemoglobin throughout the animal community cannot be arranged in any type of of evolutionary series, to agree with phenotypical arrangements of the 'evolutionary tree'. Biochemical research does not support the tree in that way, but does support it in the study of cytochrome C, which is pretty much the same throughout the animal kingdom, making points for common descent.