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This is a great thread. Good information. I just love comments like this:
Self-replicating molecules have been synthesised in the lab.
(1) How ironic. (2) Let's see 'em. In case some onlooker didn't get it, I wrote "How ironic" because it takes scientists to make molecules replicate in the lab, yet, people want to believe it happens by accident. Secondly, I said "Let's see 'em" because I've been in the information field long enough to know how often the political arm of science lies for their own purposes. I'm quite sure that the term "self-replicating molecules" is being used very loosely in this context in order to make the evolution myth look more feasible. I've personally witnessed outright lies from mainstream media and the U.S. government so many times that I stopped counting years ago. Mainstream health-related news stories lie on nearly a daily basis. There are many people in the world without a conscience and without accountability, and most of them ascend quickly within governments and large corporations. I've been giving it a little thought, and the "self-replicating molecule" isn't just a bogus, bar-lowering misdefinition of life targeting the uneducated. It's also a red herring. There are no self-replicating molecules in living cells. Every component we know of is replicated, alright, but they do so with the help of other components - not in isolation. My memory isn't perfect, but I seem to recall a story of "self-replicating molecules" being engineered in a lab. They had to be supplied with exactly the right components. The components consisted of exact duplicate molecules strategically split (not in half exactly) into two parts. When the two pieces aligned with the complete template, final assembly took place. Now those who are serious about this stuff should search about a little on their own. The example I have tried to recall is woefully inadequate. A lot of smarts went into engineering it; it's not operating on the same principles as life; it has to be supplied with perfect, complex molecular parts; and it only completes the very final step in the assembly process. And of course any "mutation" at all would hopelessly ruin it, as the intelligent agents who worked so hard to design it admitted. It is difficult to describe persons such as conduct such activities. It takes some smarts and knowledge to design such things, but the usual motive to do so seems to be in direct conflict with science, learning, knowledge and intellect. The logic is flawed in more than one way. It does not follow that if a man can engineer and construct such a "self-replicating molecule" in a lab, unguided forces with no lab or equipment can and did engineer and construct life. Not even close! I still think the only strategy involved here is to trade on the "scientific-sounding" term, and target the ignorant. I caution anyone who would buy into this to at least find out what the terms mean. Or would you prefer to follow in the footsteps of those who have chosen a belief without even knowing what it is? That's pure anything-but-the-truth-ism right there, and we have seen it before. Anything-but-the-truth-ism is a self-defeating philosophy by definition, because it acknowledges the very truth it seeks to reject as being true.
Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson
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