Abiogenesis is simply life from non-life. What is depicted in the Bible is just one form.I believe the whole of Genesis.
However I don't think Gen 1:11 is referring to abiogenesis.
FoeHammer.
I believe the whole of Genesis.
However I don't think Gen 1:11 is referring to abiogenesis.
FoeHammer.
Hey! if abiogenesis can be defined as life from non-life via God's command that suits me just fine.Genesis 1:11 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
I.e., the dirt (inanimate) is told to bear plant life (animate). This is de dicto life from non-life, and de dicto Abiogenesis. I don't quite see how you can deny this.
When I used the term evolution in the OP what I meant, of course, was adaptation:
4.Biology. a.any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from natural selection and by which the organism becomes better fitted to survive and multiply in its environment.
That sounds more like lamarkism, not modern evolutionary theory, if you maybe found a defintion of it about populations and genes then maybe you'd be closer
I do not, for one moment, accept the notion that the first organism, as a consequence of abiogenesis (which, whether one likes it or not, can be termed evolution) over vast amounts of time via genetic mutation and environmental changes/pressures evolved into the many and diverse forms of life that we see on the earth today.
FoeHammer.
I take it you disagree with my definition. Why, and what's your alternate? And for the record, the 'via god's command' qualifier is not what I was specifically implying.Hey! if abiogenesis can be defined as life from non-life via God's command that suits me just fine.
FoeHammer.
Its great that you now accept evolution.Hey! if abiogenesis can be defined as life from non-life via God's command that suits me just fine.
So what?Genesis is an eye witness account, since when do eye witness accounts not count as evidence?
FoeHammer.
Adaptation/evolution..... same thing.Its great that you now accept evolution.
As for life from non life... there are self replicating chemicals, which aren't alive... which are subject to evolution.
So... if the most utterly basic of these (a really simple prion pre-cursor, probably) forms from chance, and then begins to self replicate, then its replications are subject to evolutionary principals, and over time, this non-life will advance to the point it may be considered "life"
Abiogenesis in a 10 second nuthell.
I thought Moses wrote Genesis, up on the hill chilling with God.
No. Just... no. Maybe you accept adaptation, but not science's evolution?Adaptation/evolution..... same thing.
FoeHammer.
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