Re: Probability and ap...

Glenn.Morton@ORYX.COM
Thu 07 Sep 1995 10:40 CT

Art Chadwick wrote:
"The criticism applies to the RNA world as well. RNA simply does not arise de
novo in nature, even in aworld where the substrates are everywhere present
(such as ours today), and certainly not in one where they were not present."

Thanks for this point, Art. If this is the case, then THIS is where
Christians should argue their case against the reductionist view of the
origin of life. To argue against the origin of life from the probabilities
simply is weak. I have shown a two step process, 1 creation of a long string
2. random excision of sub-strings, which makes the finding of a particular
functional unit much, much more likely. The probability argument
is too weak to support the weight of any anti-evolutionary arguments.

I have said on numerous occasions that I don't think evolutionists have
proven their case with the actual origin of life. That may very well
have had to have been accomplished by God. But to argue that the
probabilities make the naturalistic origin of life imposible, is simply
not the case.

glenn