(January 22, 2014 at 9:34 pm)snowtracks Wrote: "researcher realize that natural causes cannot produce replicating life forms. famed origin-of-life researcher leslie orgel said this at issol 2002 "It would be a miracle if a strand of RNA ever appeared on the primitive Earth. As a preface to this comment, Orgel remarked, 'I hope no creationists are in the audience."
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Nav...elab3.html
Calm down, my fuzzy little man-peach...Say it ain't so!
A miracle? If Scientists can do it in a lab, by simulating conditions that Earth was capable of creating, surely you don't maintain that it was anything miraculous, or divinely sparked. It's a perfectly natural phenomena, that is now being better understood as such. You do know that this is not something new, right? I realize that you put a lot of eggs in the out of context quotes that you extracted from a meeting in 2002, but in order to avoid being plagued by selection bias, and prevent being seen as delusional, you should really keep up with the times, and revise your beliefs as new evidence destroys good reasons for holding the old ones.
You gotta get this magic stuff outa your head. When you go to Vegas, and watch a magic show, you don't leave believing that rabbits can be brought into existence from a Top-Hat, you walk away wondering what the trick was, no? Hopefully I'm not giving you too much credit here, but I suspect you are not so gullible in all aspects of life. Be careful not to confuse things that your mind does not yet understand, with "Miracles" or "Magic". Magic is deception, and Miracles are their misunderstood cousins.