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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I like you. You're funny. I say that because these are the exact same arguments that First of Two and I have refuted before. But as the old saw goes, misery loves company. Or, to cop a line from XTC, let's begin. A computer is a horrible analogy for a cell. Absolutely horrible. Mainly because they have about as much in common as Celine Dion and Bjork. I'll try and say this as clearly as possible. Evolution does not work through random spattering. There are certain laws that must be obeyed. That's why it's science. To use the example I've used time and time again, if you randomly toss letters out it will take 10^huge number years to get Hamlet. But if you keep what works (as natural selection does) and toss what doesn't (as natural selection does) you can do the whole play (via computer) in just a few days. "...since evolutionists claim that there was no oxygen in the atmosphere when life formed, there would thus be no O3, thus no o-zone layer, thus the cell would be fried by ultraviolet radiation as soon as it was formed (assuming amino acids can exist in the presence of UV, of course; not sure here)?" That isn't an "evolutionist claim". It's a simple fact. Free oxygen cannot exist for long without some source creating it. That source is life. (On a side note, this means that if we ever detect a world with large amounts of oxygen in its atmosphere, it's a pretty good bet there is life there too.) Secondly, ultraviolet is damaging to the larger lifeforms we currently see. But there is a whole host of more primitive forms of life that think UV rays tickle. We're talking about bacteria that can survive in the presence of radiation strong enough to turn glass brown. Life is far more hardy than you give it credit for. It is only us bigger and more fragile things that can't take the heat. Luckily for us, such earlier lifeforms happen to create, as a waste product, this nifty gas called oxygen. Unlucky for them, since it's a deadly poison to the sort of bacteria I'm talking about. But their sacrifice made for our breathable air. "..if a given individual mutated in such a way that they couldn't reproduce with other members of their species, thus becoming a new species, that mutation would not be passed on, since, by definition, the individual with the mutation couldn't reproduce" Another common misunderstanding of evolution. It doesn't affect individuals, it affects groups. Speciation occurs when enough subtle changes build up in the group's gene pool so as to make them unable to breed with other groups. Besides, the breeding definition of species is by no means an ironclad rule. As you would expect given evolutionary theory, some species are still related enough to interbreed. You seem to consistantly misrepresent what evolution actually is, and I think that's the source of all this confusion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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