Good to have you back, Chuck. Love your insight, explanation and commentary! Jim South Jordan Mom <sjordanmom@yahoo.com> wrote: Again, well said Chuck. Chuck Hards wrote:Must strongly disagree, Don. I feel your way of thinking is much more unlikely. It's not science if the first cells were "breathed upon the waters"- so please keep it out of science class, and in the seminary where it belongs. By all means believe it, just don't teach it to my kids as science. Further, it's not pure chance, it's a natural progression, a process of chemistry/bio chemistry (which was ultimately started by an intelligence but which is completely outside of the process at that point). I'm sorry if you can't grasp that conceptually, but I don't feel the need to convince you of my beliefs. I just don't want you trying to convince me of yours in the public school system. I (and others) also disagree with Buttar's assesment that there is no fossil record of the "missing link" - which comes WAY after the "primordeal soup" stage anyway. The fossil record is not complete, certainly, but no one ever made the claim that it is. The understanding of natural history is not complete at present, and no one with a brain in their head would claim it to be just at the time they happen to be living. For as long as there is a human species we will be learning, filling in the blanks of the story of our beginnings and evolution. It's too bad that some people feel a need to marginalize real science in order to validate their spiritual beliefs. --- "Don J. Colton" wrote:
I believe the idea of intelligent design as an explanation for at least the first cells can be readily taught without pointing to any particular religion. It is much more likely than the staggeringly improbable idea that the first cells were created by chance.
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