Hi Bex,



Why would they not have evolved, just like other parts of an organism evolve?

Animals seem to have emotions, though maybe not as varied as ours. Anyone who has had a pet would attest to that.

Speaking as someone who knows, when biochemistry is out of balance, so are emotions. I don't know what that says about the nature of whatever part of us may transcend the body, but it seems to be proof that emotions are tied to the body, and therefore that they can evolve too. Some effects of some neurotransmitters are well known.

I'm going to have to leave your protein and DNA statement to someone who knows more about these things; genetics isn't my strong point.



The first law of thermodynamics says that energy is conserved. Bear in mind that potential energy is negative for the purposes of this law, and the total energy of the universe could even be zero. But frankly, we don't know. Maybe you can clarify what you are claiming here?



Yet my colloidal mineral supplement, which is extracted from a deposit in the earth, contains over 70 trace elements.

I'm not sure what your statement above proves, other than that many of the elements in the universe can be found in living things. In fact, all baryonic matter in the known universe seems to be limited to the options on the periodic table.

It is also quite in keeping with the possibility that life formed on earth. This would include the theory of abiogenesis.



Would you please explain the intermediary steps between this quotation, and the conclusion that it is about DNA? Personally I can't see them.



This neglects the reality of self-replicating molecules which have been produced in the lab. You might want to have a look at the abiogenesis thread here to see what experiments have shown so far. There are some intriguing possibilities.

What's more, invalidating a theory does not mean that another one wins by default. If abiogenesis were invalidated, we would need to study other possibilities for how life on earth arose. For example there's exogenesis (which says that self-replicating molecules formed in space) and panspermia (which says that life came here from another world). Or for now we might have to say, "We don't know." In order to compete as a theory, creationism would have to present some scientific evidence of its own.



I'm not sure how this invalidates evolution, if that is the idea. Even if you believe in a soul which enters the body at birth and exits at death, there is ample evidence that the form of the body in which it lives has evolved.

I'm pretty sure that a person dies from anoxia because of the severe damage to organs, particularly the brain, that occurs when they are starved of oxygen. Though I don't think anyone claims to know what the ultimate nature of life and death are, and this is not covered by evolution either. Evolution is simply the change in heritable traits in a population over time.



See above.



True. And there are some things that science has helped us to understand pretty well.