>>FMAJ: Why not? If natural selection is an intelligent designer for
instance, why are there limits to evolution.
DNAunion: That sounds like an oxymoron to me. If you have any kind of
intelligence and design involved in the selection process, then it is not
NATURAL selection, be definition. What am I missing?
>>FMAJ: But even more relevant why are we confusing evolution with the
ability to create life from non-life? Is that not a strawman?
DNAunion: No, it is not. How do you propose that life arose (according to
naturalistic position)?
Did it pop up fully formed instantaneously - nothing one second and then
poof! a cell (or self-replicator)? Or did it evolve - that is, did it arise
by the gradual complexification of organic molecules leading from, say PNA or
p-RNA into the RNA World, from which eventually a self-replicator arose, that
then improved in its fidelity and/or rate of reproduction to outproduce its
competitors so that it dominated the niche and... leading to the appearance
of catalytic proteins, the most useful being retained the the unuseful being
eliminated .... followed by the appearance of DNA (the selective advantage
being that it is a more stable storage form for genetic information than is
RNA), all of which became encapsulated (at some point) in a liposome
(selective advantage is to concentrate biologically relevant molecules), with
metabolism entering the picture at some point ... leading to the first full
blown cell.
In fact, if you want, I can provide about a dozen quotes from origin of life
researchers that explicitly state the link between evolution - and even
Darwinian evolution - in abiogenesis.
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