The real alternative to design (Evolution)

by David Turell , Monday, March 10, 2008, 20:06 (6100 days ago) @ whitecraw

"I recently read an interesting interview with the palaeontologist Andrew Knoll, a professor of biology at Harvard, which you will find here. {Knoll offers} a definition of life as 'a system that's capable of Darwinian evolution'. This is interesting because, if one assumes this definition, it clearly makes the question of how life originated logically distinct from the Darwinian theory of evolution." - I appreciate whitecraw giving us this website. Knoll makes it sound very easy for life to appear in nature. It certainly appears quickly when the conditions are right. At the end of the interview he infers that we may never figure out how life started. The disconnect in the interview is that he gives simple replies and leaves out very important information. The Urey-Miller experiment amino acids and amino acids from the universe found in meteorities are 70 in number (in 2004, in my last review of this), and only eight of the 20 essential amino acids necessary in life were in this 70. Further, natural processes make amino acids and nucleic acids (for DNA/RNA) 50-50% right and left handed. Amino acids in life are all left handed and nucleic acids are all right handed. The start of life was something very unique and strange. - Life started 3.6 billion years ago with single-celled organisms, presumably some type of bacteria. Bacteria have been extremely successful. They are still here in many forms, ie. the extremeophiles, and make up the biggest biomass on Earth. Bacteria contain DNA/RNA for inheritence and to manage evolution as Knoll inferentially points out. If one considers the process of chance mutation and natural selection (Darwinism) as the driving force of evolution, and presumes that advances occur in evolution to improve survivability, why did evolution bother to advance to multicellular sexually reproductive,complex organisms like us, given the success of bacteria? It doesn't make sense to me. So what drives evolution if anything?