Deadend

It seems we may have a standoff in this discussion. Ironically, in my world view, it's not that important anyway, as I have no problem with an old Earth.

My position for an old Earth.
http://urlbam.com/ha/M0020

My contention is (and always has been) with this belief:

Natural processes form highly-complex, symmetrical, sexual (separate organisms having perfectly compatible reproductive systems), self-reproducing machines given lots of time.

My position is that natural processes (chemical binding rules, etc.) are woefully insufficient to build these kinds of things.


"The problem of the origin of species has not advanced in the last 150 years. One hundred and fifty years have already passed during which it has been said that the evolution of the species is a fact but, without giving real proofs of it and without even a principle of explaining it. During the last one hundred and fifty years of research that has been carried out along this line [in order to prove the theory], there has been no discovery of anything. It is simply a repetition in different ways of what Darwin said in 1859. This lack of results is unforgivable in a day when molecular biology has really opened the veil covering the mystery of reproduction and heredity . .

"Finally, there is only one attitude which is possible as I have just shown: It consists in affirming that intelligence comes before life. Many people will say this is not science, it is philosophy. The only thing I am interested in is fact, and this conclusion comes out of an analysis and observation of the facts."

—G. Salet, Hasard et Certitude: Le Transformisme devant la Biologie Actuelle (1973), p. 331.