(May 9, 2013 at 7:14 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: There is no natural tendency for amino acids to arrange themselves in the specific arrangement we observe them in within living organisms....
While this statement is true for DNA, it's also not what scientists are claiming. The most common hypothesis is that RNA was the structure that originally became self-replicating within ocean vents. Another common hypothesis is that the Krebs cycle came first...although this is in dispute since the process of replication and generation of ATP are so intertwined that it's hard to imagine one without the other. Spend 20 minutes on wikipedia and read up on the RNA world theory, I'm sure you'll find it quite enlightening.
It's also worth mentioning that several of the components of RNA have indeed been produced in a lab with methods consistent with those that would have been present in an ocean vent. We're still missing a few, but research is constantly being done on it. Go on netflix and watch NOVA science now with Niel Degrasse Tyson, they explain the process in great detail.
The point is, this is science, and eventually this will all be understood. I don't know why the religious resist the findings of science when it doesn't even necessarily contradict your theology. So life started in an ocean vent. You can still posit that it was God that caused it to happen in the first place.
