(January 13, 2020 at 8:49 pm)SUNGULA Wrote: Oh and another issue with you using Harold Morowitz.He was staunchlynchly and an anti creationist and opposed intelligent design and accepted evolution and abiogenesis .
(January 13, 2020 at 8:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I've read Morowitz's 'Energy Flow In Biology' (it was assigned reading at uni). His writing tended to follow Darwin's style, in which he posited how unlikely something was, then went on to demonstrate that it wasn't so unlikely after all (Darwin famously did this with the evolution of the eye).And the fact he accepted abiogenesis and evolution .But it wouldn't matter even if he didn't .Science isn't built of celebrity opinions in books .It's built of peer review and convincing consensus your right .IDiots fail his hard .
Morowitz did indeed write what was quoted above, but immediately demolished the idea, because the smallest, simplest form of life wasn't due to chance, but was constrained by chemistry and physics to occur along certain pathways. He held a pretty rigid view of the deterministic nature of evolution. To imply that he believed the formation of life was mathematically impossible is simply quote mining of a particularly vile nature.
Boru
Ayup, he was an evolutionist, pure and simple.
At the end of the day, this is really all creationists have got - straw men and quote mining.
Boru
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