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Old 07-09-2003, 10:49 AM   #11
Cirdan
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Originally posted by wahine
I personally find it VERY difficult to believe we originated as pond scum, but anyway...
Abiogenesis is a difficult concept to swallow. This may be were the creationists have their best case. Abiogenesis is not part of the Theory of Evolution, but an ancillary hypothesis.

I find it difficult to accept that if abiogenesis could occur once, that it couldn't have occurred numerous times. Yet the most basic cell functions in all living organisms all operate the same way. (DNA, RNA, etc). Is it the nature of the basic organic molecules, the building blocks of life, to only work a certain way (given the operating parameters of the earth's environments)?
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Now, if these particles are moving at the exact same speed and all the other particles then every planet should be the same as the other--in theory.

That is where chaos theory comes in. The more complex the system the simpler the mechanism. Perfect uniformity is the least likely scenario in nature.
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But, the truth is, although the planets could be shaped different because of the cluster of gasses etc. It is impossible for one planet to have it's axis at a different place, say...at it's side!

Isn't the top defined by where the axis is?
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Also, how would the things that eventually made the cosmos have gotten there?
The bus?
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