Philosopher of biology Paul Nelson will be speaking this weekend in the vicinity of Trinity College, Florida:
Sunday, December 4th, The Crossroads Church, 7975 River Ridge Blvd. New Port Richey, FL
Monday, December 5th, at 7:00 pm, University of South Florida, USF Alumni CenterTampa, FL More.
See also: What we know and don’t know about the origin of life
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For a modern, science based look at OOL, try this BBC article, courtesy of the much missed and lamented vjtorley:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story.....arth-began
Why doesn’t vjtorley post here any more?
Silver Asiatic:
“Why doesn’t vjtorley post here any more?”
That’s what I was wondering, too…
As to this quote from Mat’s OOL propagandist article:
The death of man’s soul, much like Twain’s death, is greatly exaggerated by evolutionary materialists.
What Penrose and Hameroff are referring to is the fact that in quantum mechanics it is quantum information that is primarily conserved, and not necessarily energy and matter that are primarily conserved, as energy and matter are primarily conserved in classical mechanics: (November 2016)
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ent-620372
Moreover, unlike the imaginary multiverse which atheists invoke to try to get around the fine-tuning of the universe, for which they have no scientific evidence, Theists do have scientific evidence for an eternal higher heavenly dimension and for a hellish dimension. Moreover, this scientific evidence comes from two of our most verified theories in science. i.e. Special Relativity and General Relativity:
supplemental note:
As to the rest of Mat’s golly gee whiz article on the OOL problem, the following leading Chemist in the world is far more honest as to the true state of OOL research than the article was:
In the following article, Tour notes that “Reckless general claims are a characteristic of the (OOL) field”
Matspirit @1
Quote from the article:
Oh my, this article is so full of Maybe this, probably that, perhaps this, could haves, might haves, are thought to haves, etc. etc.
And yet they call this science?
In order to take their claims/beliefs seriously, first you have to make the leap of faith that life evolved all on it’s own.
No one KNOWS that, in spite of what he claims.