Genome complexity: challenges naturalism (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, September 20, 2015, 14:59 (3353 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: As I wrote in 1992 in my book (two years before my first book was published) the discoveries of increasingly complex mechanisms to create and sustain life would eventually bring an end to the acceptance of Darwin's theory of evolution. This article encapsulates my thinking perfectly:-http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/07/evolutions_gran097591.html-QUOTE: "Aside from the obvious (and intriguing) challenge of understanding the enormous complexity of life's information payload, evolution purports to explain its origins."-No it doesn't. Darwin's theory attempts to explain how different forms of life evolved from earlier forms of life. Your author clearly hasn't read Darwin's book but has seized on the fact that atheists like to conflate the theory of evolution with the theory of abiogenesis. They are not connected. Modern discoveries may well have put paid to Darwin's concept of how the process works, but that does not put paid to the theory of evolution.
 
Here for the umpteenth time is part of Darwin's conclusion in my edition of Origin (not a first edition): “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms of life or one.” David, you have accepted common descent, and that is the bedrock of Darwin's theory. If you agree with his above conclusion, then stop claiming that the theory is nearing the end of acceptance.