Susan Brassfield wrote:
>Abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution. Evolution is about the
>history of life on earth. Abiogenesis is about how that life got started. I
>must have typed those sentences hundreds of times over the years I've
>debated creationists. I've also read them hundreds of times when they were
>typed by other evolutionists in the debate.
This seems like saying that the landing of Columbus in North America
has nothing to do with the history of North America. I don't see why one
would argue that abiogenesis is distinct from evolution, unless one were
thinking that abiogenesis was a product of divine intervention and that
subsequent evolution was not. What other reason could there be for finding
the distinction significant?
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@cab.com
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