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did the first spark of life happen out of the blue? Was it a total fluke or were there precursors (like the chemical soup and the energy source, blah, blah)?
As far as I know, science has not found any answer to this question yet. If I am wrong and some scientist claims to have such an answer, please give me the link.
Closer to the truth is that both theories should be taught, because it must be one or the other. I don't know of any third theory to to explain the origin of life.
Maybe this is only a question of vocabulary, and we are not talking about the same thing. I am 60 and left high school long ago, so I do not know what is taught in biology class nowadays. As far as I remember, evolution was not trying to explain the origin of life when I was a student. Do you know or does anybody know a link showing how evolution theory is actually taught today in a high school course?
Maybe this is only a question of vocabulary, and we are not talking about the same thing. I am 60 and left high school long ago, so I do not know what is taught in biology class nowadays. As far as I remember, evolution was not trying to explain the origin of life when I was a student. Do you know or does anybody know a link showing how evolution theory is actually taught today in a high school course?
Well, in one sense it IS a question of vocabulary. Instead of saying "evolution was not trying to explain the origin of life when I was a student" you should be saying "people were not using evolution to explain the origin of life when I was a student". Whether they are doing so today at the high school biology level is not clear to me, but if Hawking is any indication, it's very possible, in modern developed nations at least.
Back when we were students, there weren't that many atheists in the world, or at least not nearly as many openly-admitted atheists. But atheism is growing rapidly now, it would seem.
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
Were it not for my own personal religious experiences (naturally unprovable), I would possibly still be agnostic/open-minded, as I was when I left college. One thing that seemed clear to me even back then was that atheism is a belief system. A proper scientific position would seem to me to be in effect an agnostic one, in that claims about anything supernatural would seem normally outside of the realm of possible testing, via lab experiments. At least that's what my high school physics teacher told our class.
Also fwiw, I've got my own numerous religious beliefs (and some anecdotes) described in an entry on my blog on the CFC website's Discussion Board, which I backed up heavily with wikipedia links where they seemed at all appropriate. My set of beliefs is unorthodox as a whole; in particular I distrust the notion of biblical inerrancy, to some extent:
Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Canada's Smartest Person - Seeking nominees.
Here might be a nominee for Canada's Smartest Person, someday when the political climate has changed enough for manmade global climate change to be regarded as at least an open question again:
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