From: Richard McGough (richard@biblewheel.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 11:33:58 EDT
Re post: http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0609.html
George wrote:
>
> The "phenomenon that Science can't explain" is the emergence of terrestrial life
>between ~ 3 & 4 billion years ago.
>
I'm sorry to belabour the point, but my argument has nothing to do with the universally recognized fact that life had a beginning on earth.
My point is that there is no evidence for abiogenesis, which I take to be defined as "the emergence of life from non-living matter through natural processes."
> It may be worth adding that the argument for chemical evolution would be
>strengthened, even without giving us an understanding of the "how", by discovery of life
>on other planets independent of the earth. But of course I don't present that as an
>argument now.
>
Agreed. In fact, I am fairly sure that such a discovery would be hailed as a *conclusive* victory for naturalism, which seems to me why materialistic scientists (e.g. Sagan) are so utterly enamoured by extra-terrestrial life.
Richard Amiel McGough
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