“The fact is (tell me why it is not a fact)
that the Biology Department does not know of what the ancient seas consisted,
does not know what seas would be necessary for life to appear, bearing in mind
that reactions depend crucially on concentrations, pH, reducing or oxidizing
atmosphere, temperature, half-life of intermediates, and so on; cannot
reproduce the event in the laboratory; cannot draw a reproducing, metabolizing
molecule on paper; and cannot show the event to be mathematically probable.
What reason, really, is there to believe that it happened, other than that the
Biology Department cannot think of another acceptable explanation?”
…
“Next: An example of a large class of problems
with Darwin appears in the horn of the rhinoceros, which (presumably)
evolved to protect the beast from predators (‘evolved to….’: always the
language of purpose) Since Darwinian evolution works through the accumulation
of many small changes, each of which must favor survival, there should be
many intermediate fossils in different states of hornization. I can find
nothing online about these intermediates, I am sure that someone in the Biology
Department could point me to them. These would establish the fact of the horn’s
evolution, though not the mechanism.”
Fred doesn’t have atta-boys
for Creationism, either.
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