RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
August 4, 2014 at 6:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2014 at 6:02 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 4, 2014 at 4:33 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(August 3, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Harris Wrote: You are saying evolution is not based on spontaneous appearance of life.
That is correct.
Actually, there is nothing special about life such that evolution can only happen after life came into being.
Evolution through natural selection as a process happens all the time, everywhere, to minerals and chemicals. Evolution applies to geology just as much as it applies to biology.
Contempary scientific thinking regarding the origin of life sees pre-biotic evolution through natural selection (survival of the fittest) of particular species of complex chemicals and minerals as being the driving force behind the gradual assembly of raw material into life. Spontaneous appearence of life is in itself an act of evolution, just as spontaneous speciation that came after the first life.
(August 4, 2014 at 4:33 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(August 3, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Harris Wrote: You are saying evolution is not based on spontaneous appearance of life.
That is correct.
Actually, there is nothing special about life such that evolution can only happen after life came into being.
Evolution through natural selection as a process happens all the time, everywhere, to minerals and chemicals. Evolution applies to geology just as much as it applies to biology.
Contempary scientific thinking regarding the origin of life sees pre-biotic evolution through natural selection (survival of the fittest) of particular species of complex chemicals and minerals as being the driving force behind the gradual assembly of raw material into life. Spontaneous appearence of life is in itself an act of evolution, just as spontaneous speciation that came after the first life.
