Study up young Padiwan. The Miller-Urey experiments didn't create life. Pastuer's experiments disproved spontaneous generation. Seems to me alot of people are putting some heavy faith in miracles based on "chance".
I studied up ages ago, oh great Sith lord.
The Miller-Urey experiments (and many like them) created amino acids, the elements of life. They also created microspheres out of these amino acids. These spheres are not alive, but they have internal chemical reactions which are analogous to those of a living cell. They divide and multiply in the same manner that living cells employ (The Rise of Life, by John Reader).
"And the chances of life forming from chemicals is quite high. The 29 essential characters were present by the million in every teaspoonful of the waters on the primitive Earth, and there was not just one lifespan available for ther chance combination there were a hundred million life spans. On this scale, odds of billions to one are not at all unreasonable. It only had to happen once. From the moment that some of the 29 characters spelled out the first word, the first living cell, the logic of biochemistry took over the composition of life's story" (The Rise of Life, by John Reader)
Ah! Perhaps this is the famed "LUCA*" Darwinists so foundly speak of? (*Last Universal Common Ancestor) Just realize science has not established empirical evidence if life started from a parokyotic or eukaryotic source. Again, add some faith that this will all be resolved but also rest assured it is not at this time, hence the theory of evolution remains theory.
You clearly have no understanding of the scientific method. If you did, you would know that evolution is not 'just' a theory. A theory in science is an accepted explaination backed up by a mountain of evidence. In science, you can never prove a theory. There is always a .00001% chance that it wrong.
Gravity is theory (as well as fact). What about the nuclear theory? Why don't you go to Hiroshima and tell them all to 'get over it, it was only a theory!'. Do you fly in a plane, Bridge? Guess what, it's the THEORY of aerodynamics that is keeping that plane in the air. Do you feel save, knowing that ONLY A THEORY is keeping you alive.
And evolution is fact and theory. So what if evolutionists can not agree on fine details? That means nothing. Things evolved from a single celled organism. That simple.
When evolutionists disagree, they are quibbling, and evolution is wrong. When they agree, they are conspiring. It's a lose/lose situation for them.
So, let me summarize. Theories are explainations. You can never prove explainations. Evolution is an EXPLAINATION of how things EVOLVED. That's why it will ALWAYS remain a theory (although it is also fact.)
Cells are complex life in and of themselves. Minature marvels. Too bad no one can figure out how the heck they got that way. Chance enters the picture again.
Actually, they have almost solved this mystery.
They have had, ooohhh, about 50 years to research. And you've had over 5000 years to provide evidence of a supreme Creator. And they have made FAR more progress that people who believe in the 'divine' ever had.
Maybe you should get an attitude adjustment. I've spent the last 5 or 6 years doing just that. Dawkin's book was a good read, very entertaining. His spiritualism is like that of a Christian only the object of his worship is a combination of natural selection and blind chance. I can understand the affection towards natural selection, but the faith in chance is so unscientific. I pity the man actually. The existing evidence for the creative power of natural selection is somewhere between weak and non-existent.
WHAT THE FUCK?
Okay, it is obvious you haven't read Dawkin's book. If you had, you would know two things...
- The problem with anti-evolutionists is that they THINK they know what evolution is.
Dawkins says "I suppose one trouble with Darwinism is that, as Jacques Monod perceptively remarked, everybody THINKS he understand it.
- Natural selection IS NOT BLIND CHANCE! Is it blind chance that when you throw objects into a hole, those smaller than it pass through, and those larger that don't? The size of the hole (the mutation) is random, but what pass through (what natural selection 'selects' is not chance). If you had read Dawkin's book (which you obviously haven't) you would know this.
You obviously need to reread and attempt to understand Dawkin's book.
That it explains our origins is wishful thinking.
Evolution is both fact and theory.
Speciation has been observed.
The fossil record clearly shows an evolutionary trend.
How do you think we got here, bridge? God clicked his fingers, and we just appeared? Or do you believe a lazy god guided creation? Do you have any evidence? I didn't think so.
Maybe for you He is. Thank God you have a choice in the matter.
Maybe you should provide evidence to support your fantasy.
Stephen Hawkings, "A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME". Read it yourself Mr. Know-it-all with an attitude.
I have, and what you quoted is not in ABHOT. And I'm a know it all with an attitude? Look who's talking!
You said above that you pity Dawkins. I don't. He is a great man.
I pity you, Bridge. You believe some macho god created everything. Do you have a scrap of evidence? Nope.
You claim to have read Dawkins. You show clearly that you haven't. Otherwise you wouldn't be saying that natural selection was 'chance'. That is rubbish, plain and simple.
You say that chemicals combining was chance? Not totally. They were GUIDED (but not intelligently) by the laws of chemistry and physcics.
Evolution is GUIDED (but not intelligently) by the laws of chemistry, physcics and natural selection.
Evolution is fact. Things chance. New species are made. Whales lost their legs. Birds were once reptiles. FACTS.
You choose to ignore the facts, and common sense. You choose to 'pity' Dawkins. Dawkins has more common sense in his little finger than you do in your entire body. You know why? His 'faith' is backed by evidence.
Dawkins does not join his hands with evolutionists every Sunday and sing "I believe in Evolution. Yes I do! Things evolve! I must believe! I must be strong!"
They save that type of stuff for fanatics who have no evidence (aka. You.)
Until you get some evidence to support the existence of a divine creator, your 'theory' is worth nothing.