Biological complexity: finding working proteins (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 16:09 (3315 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Darwin's theory of evolution does not claim that life emerged as a result of chance. It does not cover the origin of life. “How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated” (Difficulties on Theory). The nearest it gets to that problem is with its numerous references to the Creator, and Darwin explicitly tells us that his theory is compatible with religion, as confirmed by millions of people who believe that God was responsible for the process of evolution. However, I would agree that the unexplained complexities of life's origins must remain a problem for atheists, some of whom are equally guilty of misrepresenting Darwin by announcing that the theory of evolution claims that life emerged as a result of chance.
I take your point about the article, but I trust you will also take mine.-DAVID: Fully accepted. Darwin's theory starts after life is established, but any study of life and evolution must be viewed as a continuum from start to now in trying to determine the underlying mechanism.-I am very happy with this answer. Thank you. My objection is to the constant misrepresentation of Darwin's theory, which I will continue to point out as it is so common among both theists and atheists. But I agree completely that we should never lose sight of the immense problem of the source of the underlying mechanism, which is why I usually put “possibly God-given” together with my hypothetical cellular intelligence.