(October 30, 2014 at 8:43 pm)Esquilax Wrote:sagan is stating an evolutionary model dogma, that life evolved slowly over eons of time. the sudden appearance of life contradicts the naturalistic model. the late heavy bombardment of earth’s hadean period ended around 3.9 bya, life’s geochemical signature evidence has been dated to 3.8 bya.(October 30, 2014 at 8:18 pm)snowtracks Wrote: not trying to prove, cajole, convince, or persuade. giving the viewpoint of old earth age christian. sagan quote is library ebook downloadable, page 237 says - "The apparatus for the transcription of the genetic code must itself have evolved slowly, through billions of years of evolution."
And if Sagan was wrong, so what? Do you really want to go down the road that claiming an entire thing is wrong because one man was wrong about it will take you down?
Because I'll tell you right now, the bible has plenty of demonstrably false things in it, so if evolution is wrong because Sagan was once, then the bible is wrong at least a hundred times over.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.