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#337660
Zoe
ABIOGENESIS DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
11/16/2007 9:29:10 PM
#337668
cool cats
I'll take a guess, probably more accurate too. Some complex molecules had the right chemical structure that allowed for self-replication under the right circumstances and it started from there.
What you are describing is magic.
11/16/2007 9:36:28 PM
#337670
Susan
Or one could say 'god did it.'
11/16/2007 9:40:30 PM
#337671
Brian X
Yes, I suppose in a manner of speaking that would be abiogenesis, but you'd sooner be able to walk through a wall due to quantum tunneling effects than something like that happening. Now self-replicating peptides in a swamp of amino acids, that's a little more likely.
11/16/2007 9:41:22 PM
#337675
Viva
No, that would be a miracle. And miracles don't happen.
11/16/2007 9:44:35 PM
#337681
Lithp
Yes, it would.
Kind of like man forming from dirt.
11/16/2007 9:59:50 PM
#337688
AnonymousAsshole
Um, no, that's not quite right there, metherion.
Of course, don't let facts get in the way of your diatribe. Do carry on with your mud pies.
11/16/2007 10:05:37 PM
#337726
Tempus
@AnonymousAsshole: It's worse than we thought. That's not mud.
11/16/2007 10:39:33 PM
#337742
Mike
Close, but no cigar.
11/16/2007 11:04:17 PM
#337746
Snopester in Exile
LOL That would indeed be abiogenesis. Specifically that would be "spontaneous generation", like how people used to think rotting meat created worms and such.
I suppose if there had been styrofoam peanuts back then, and raccoons had a habit of hiding in them and jumping out at people they might well have come to that conclusion.
11/16/2007 11:10:01 PM
#337752
Amanda
I have the urge to compare metherion's brain with styrofoam packing peanuts.
11/16/2007 11:46:00 PM
#337757
Scienceman123
Urgh.
Sie geben mir die kopfschmerzen.
(You are giving me a headache.)
11/16/2007 11:49:56 PM
#337811
Thanks for being so honest as to question your ignorance of Evolution.
11/17/2007 12:38:51 AM
#337819
NJ Osprey
So, for instance, if a bunch of styrofoam packing peanuts suddenly turned into racoons, that would be abiogenesis.
No. That would be science fiction.
11/17/2007 1:01:59 AM
#337821
onions
oh you mean like, turning water into wine?
11/17/2007 1:35:12 AM
#337825
Michael
What would it be if a fundie turned into a normal rational person? A MIRACLE!
11/17/2007 1:44:52 AM
#337845
solomongrundy
Is it 'backwards day?'
A heap of inanimate matter suddenly turning into a live vertebrate is what the Bible claims is true, not science.
11/17/2007 3:11:32 AM
#337881
Athar
My biological dictionary tells me this is true. However, it states that this was a theory, that involved things like all kinds of vermin being created from refuse. Including rats. Famous biologistm Louis Pasteur, however, tried this theory in sterile conditions and lo and behold. It doesn't work. Believe it or not! Biology has disproven this theory.
11/17/2007 4:27:12 AM
#337885
Betsy Newson
Hmmmmmmm, that might explain the outbreak of grey squirrels around South London.
11/17/2007 4:32:57 AM
#337886
Classic
I guess it could spontaneously happen that all of the essential bits needed for life could appear in a sea of packing peanuts. It might even be more likely than people ceasing from making straw man arguments.
11/17/2007 4:34:15 AM
#337901
anevilmeme
Tired of building Strawmen of evolution, our band of fundie heros turn to building Strawmen of abiogensis.
When asked to comment on the situation Rocky the Flying Squirrel replied: "Again? That trick never works!"
Film at eleven.
11/17/2007 5:19:16 AM
#337914
Lex Kitten
No, that would be fucking scary. Or... really awesome...
11/17/2007 6:13:45 AM
#337935
AWP
Bad example
11/17/2007 6:46:40 AM
#337936
Kinderklein
@Michael
One of very few Miracles the scientific community actually recognise as such =)
11/17/2007 6:47:18 AM
#337939
Alethe
No, that's a really twisted form of Spontaneous Generation, an idea that was thoroughly debunked roughly a century ago.
Staggeringly epic fail.
11/17/2007 6:53:21 AM
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