>Elmer wrote:

>> Ips-Switch wrote:

>>> How do advocates of evolution explain the actual origin of life? They
>>>say that some billions of years ago the ocean surrounding the earth may
>>>have become an "organic soup," though still lifeless. Then, they
>>>explain, 'a particularly remarkable molecule was formed by a most
>>>improbable accident.' Miraculously, this reproduced itself to form other
>>>molecules that clustered together to form a living cell. Could anything
>>>sound more fantastic? The writer who gave this description stated in his
>>>foreword: "This book should be read almost as though it were science
>>>fiction." Yes, fiction, but hardly science! National Geographic has said
>>>that the programmed instructions (DNA) in one tiny cell "if written out,
>>>would fill a thousand 600-page books." How ridiculous it is to say that
>>>the living cell created itself accidentally in some primeval soup!

>>
>> Evolution is about what happens after life has started. It has nothing
>> to do with how life began.
>>

>Read the question again, Slowly this time. ...

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