• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

Is the fundamental gap between creationists and non-creationists...

Subduction Zone

Regular Member
Dec 17, 2012
32,629
12,069
✟230,471.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
Nice attempt at deflection from the fact that even many evolutionists today admit DNA is a biological programming language code that all cells have as their operating system, containing specified and complex information, and that language and information only come from an intelligent mind.
They really don't At least not in the sense that you are using the term. And no, "specified and complex information" is just a garbage term that creationists use. They cannot properly define it.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Frank Robert
Upvote 0

Subduction Zone

Regular Member
Dec 17, 2012
32,629
12,069
✟230,471.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
The odds that life appeared on earth are 1:1.

The odds that life appeared because of random bonding of chemicals in a prebiotic soup: beyond impossible.

And THAT’S how probability works.
Whew!! It is a good thing that abiogenesis does not rely on that then.
 
Upvote 0

chad kincham

Well-Known Member
Mar 4, 2009
2,773
1,006
✟69,550.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
The evolution of autocatalytic sets in molecular replication, (ie: Abiogenesis), is a function of time .. which is supported by evidence of the complexity seen in the simplest cells.

Wrong. As Professor James Tour points out, the organic chemicals required for abiogenesis degrade very quickly, so time works against it, not for it.

That’s why researchers in labs have to stop chemical processes and remove them from the apparatus before they polymerize., when they create them.
 
Upvote 0

SelfSim

A non "-ist"
Jun 23, 2014
7,045
2,232
✟210,136.00
Faith
Humanist
Marital Status
Private
Wrong. As Professor James Tour points out, the organic chemicals required for abiogenesis degrade very quickly, so time works against it, not for it.

That’s why researchers in labs have to stop chemical processes and remove them from the apparatus before they polymerize., when they create them.
Its true that some reactions stop (for several reasons). Its also true that many don't. Some oscillate also. When left alone, eventually, a spontaneous phase transition occurs across the whole mix and complex life functions emerge (like metabolism) .. along with increasingly complex proteins (in Abiogensis hypotheses)... all supported in objective evidence.
 
Upvote 0

Subduction Zone

Regular Member
Dec 17, 2012
32,629
12,069
✟230,471.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
There’s a long list of evolutionists who disagree with you.
There really is not. If there were you would have posted them.

The problem appears to be in your understanding. When someone tries to claim that abiogenesis is "random" they demonstrate that they do not understand the laws of chemistry. One of the reasons that all of the odds arguments fail is because they are all strawman argument. Identify the strawman and the argument fails without any math being done at all. Reactions are not "random". They are very limited.
 
Upvote 0

chad kincham

Well-Known Member
Mar 4, 2009
2,773
1,006
✟69,550.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
No, the odds are still 1:1.
Odds of 1 in 97 billion are infinitesimally small.

Do you even know how statistics work?

If they sell 16 million lottery tickets and you buy 1 ticket, the odds of winning are 1 in 16 million - very poor odds.

The odds that organic chemicals can become a living cell are between 1 in 97 billion and up, which is impossible odds.
 
Upvote 0

Speedwell

Well-Known Member
May 11, 2016
23,928
17,626
82
St Charles, IL
✟347,280.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Other Religion
Marital Status
Married
There’s a long list of evolutionists who disagree with you.
Can you name some--abiogenesis researchers who believe that the first living cell assembled spontaneously from organic chemicals?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Astrophile
Upvote 0

chad kincham

Well-Known Member
Mar 4, 2009
2,773
1,006
✟69,550.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
There really is not. If there were you would have posted them.

The problem appears to be in your understanding. When someone tries to claim that abiogenesis is "random" they demonstrate that they do not understand the laws of chemistry. One of the reasons that all of the odds arguments fail is because they are all strawman argument. Identify the strawman and the argument fails without any math being done at all. Reactions are not "random". They are very limited.

These are evolutionist calculating the odds, so the straw man argument is yours.
 
Upvote 0

AV1611VET

SCIENCE CAN TAKE A HIKE
Site Supporter
Jun 18, 2006
3,855,604
52,510
Guam
✟5,127,865.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Republican
The odds that organic chemicals can become a living cell are between 1 in 97 billion and up, which is impossible odds.
If God says otherwise, the odds of it happening are 1 in 0.
 
Upvote 0

chad kincham

Well-Known Member
Mar 4, 2009
2,773
1,006
✟69,550.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
Can you name some--abiogenesis researchers who believe that the first living cell assembled spontaneously from non-living chemicals?
Look up abiogenesis in the dictionary.

By definition abiogenesis research is researching chemical evolution by organic chemicals randomly bonding together.
 
Upvote 0

chad kincham

Well-Known Member
Mar 4, 2009
2,773
1,006
✟69,550.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
1 to the 97 billionth power is 1, so you may be nearer to the mark than you thought. I'm not going to ask where you got this number from; I suspect that it was a scientist who was teasing you and making fun of your ignorance of mathematics.

The odds are 1 in 97 billion for the simplest cell to form in any. prebiotic scenario.
 
Upvote 0

Subduction Zone

Regular Member
Dec 17, 2012
32,629
12,069
✟230,471.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
Look up abiogenesis in the dictionary.

By definition abiogenesis research is researching chemical evolution by organic chemicals randomly bonding together.
LOL!!! You never go to a non-technical source in a technical debate. Dictionaries simplify concepts too far to be of any use.
 
Upvote 0

Subduction Zone

Regular Member
Dec 17, 2012
32,629
12,069
✟230,471.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
The odds are 1 in 97 billion for the simplest cell to form in any. prebiotic scenario.
Correction, in any strawman version of abiogenesis.

Find someone that works in the science. What non-experts say does not really matter. Especially since almost all of them get even the basics wrong.
 
Upvote 0

Speedwell

Well-Known Member
May 11, 2016
23,928
17,626
82
St Charles, IL
✟347,280.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Other Religion
Marital Status
Married
Look up abiogenesis in the dictionary.

By definition abiogenesis research is researching chemical evolution by organic chemicals randomly bonding together.
This is the first hit I got:
Abiogenesis: the original evolution of life or living organisms from inorganic or inanimate substances.

Nothing there about "randomly bonding together." In fact, I can't find a definition which says that.
 
Upvote 0

Subduction Zone

Regular Member
Dec 17, 2012
32,629
12,069
✟230,471.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single
Yockey, Fred Hoyle, Axe, and others.
Fred Hoyle was a physicist. His opinion would be no more valid than mine. This is what happens when people do not understand the scientific method. You need to find experts in the field. Not physicists or dentists.
 
Upvote 0