Biblical skepticism of the Origin of Life

I have no problem calling it abiotioc or non-biological if the word “pre-biotic” gives you trouble. I don’t have to assume that the distribution of amino acids one obtains from natural chemical reactions will inevitably lead to life wherever it occurs. So you can just substitute in abiotic in place of prebiotic.

The non-biological (a-biotic) distribution produced by blind physics and chemistry can be shown both through experiment (observed in meteorites) and predicted on thermodynamic grounds. Given the laws of physics as we understand them and a particular geological setting, these are the products we would expect regardless of whether they go on to lead to life or not. That’s it.

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Evidence = something that makes one hypothesis more probable than other

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Ahh, then a brick is only a brick if it is part of a house… or what? Look, whatever it is that just dawned on you, spare me.

And that is all you have. But no evidence.

Please don’t respond to that @Rumraket

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Has any of that been of the evidence, not just hearsay?

So why do muscle myosins continue to function for several hours after death?

Weird thing to say. Evolution and abiogenesis are completely irrelevant when it comes to my worldview. I certainly don’t rely on them to make my case against theistic belief.

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Wow. I did not realize you held such sway over independently thinking minds.

Tell us, what is your answer?

I direct you back to my comment before we get to your distraction. I just stated that a protein is no longer a protein if it dies.

That is a new definition? Just made up by you?

Naw. Get informed:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evidence/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/#WhatJustBeli

How do you define evidence? I know this is a mistake because you probably won’t answer. But I’m curious

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Right now I define it as a distraction. I just introduced the idea that you people do not have the evidence that you claim to have.

Further, I backed it up by saying you are using “prebiotic” in an illegitimate matter.

Then after @rumaket finally admits “these are the products we would expect regardless of whether they go on to lead to life or not”, I respond and say,

Then you have no evidence,

to which you say in effect, “Shut up. Don’t answer that”

Now that is where we stand at the moment. Everything else is a distraction.

Lolololol . You won’t even define evidence. So how can you say we have none?

Again. What is evidence? You’re saying the definition of evidence is a distraction, but evidence is what is being discussed…

Look, I’ll even put it in picture form
For you:

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What? My steak is not protein?

And I just reduced your ‘evidence’ to zero. There is no such thing as prebiotic anything.

Stop dodging the question. What is evidence? I’m not even talking biology right now. Define evidence.

Let’s say I give you a cup of tea. I don’t tell if you if it’s sweet or unsweet. What would be evidence that it’s sweet?

God’s a living thing? Like with metabolism, reproduction, and all that?

Maybe you need to review the tenets of your religion. I’m pretty sure that’s not what they say…

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So given that my steak is protein, it is not dead? Now that is rare.

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Let’s say I give you collection of chemicals that look like proteins. Now I give you two collections. Which one is prebiotic?