(December 21, 2008 at 3:30 am)bodhitharta Wrote: Are you saying it took 3.5 billion years for life to reproduce as it does today? There is no evidence whatsoever that producing living organisms varied at all from the way they do today.
There is, actually, quite a lot of well-researched evidence. The fossil record (regardless of what you have been told, because I know you haven't done any actual research or you would know this) shows quite clearly that not all organisms have been around for all of geological time. There are clear patterns of development, and these are so well documented that they can use fossil data to date rocks and use this information to find oil (for example).
(December 21, 2008 at 3:30 am)bodhitharta Wrote: When science does "create" a self-replicating system and I hope they do, it will prove that self-replicating systems are "CREATED".
Right. So, basically what you're saying is that we will have created life, much like god, so it wouldn't have taken divine power at all? I really think you need to check out the primordial soup theory a bit further, it's quite interesting and makes a fair bit of sense. Obviously I don't know if it's correct, since I wasn't there, but there are various experiments that show that basic building blocks of life could've easily come about in the early ages of our planet's history.
(December 21, 2008 at 3:30 am)bodhitharta Wrote: I say the seed was created because it follows a design and the design follows a purpose. Even grass has a purpose, they found that out in mid-America just before the great depression occured when they ruined the top soil and it blew away(also known as the dust bowl).
You see a purpose in it because you choose to. Grass holding firm the loose soil is not a "purposed" thing like nails holding down a board. The "purpose" of grass is to propagate grass DNA. Nothing more. The grass that does this best spreads.
