How I came to believe (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, October 05, 2015, 12:52 (3126 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Many thanks, David, for this article, which brilliantly sums up the case against chance, is a powerful indictment of the scientific establishment, is a tribute to the courage of its author, and should be compulsory reading for atheistic Darwinists. It's a pity he talks about "Darwin's theory of biological origins" as "atheism's creation myth", when he must know that Darwin's theory of evolution does not cover creation,...-DAVID: I must again take you to task. Life is a continuum from first life to now. The two parts of the story are inseparable. First live had to contain the mechanisms that allowed for evolution to more complexity. -Agreed, but who says you must provide a theory for both? There is now a wide consensus that evolution took place, whereas there is no consensus on how the original mechanisms came into being. That would seem to justify Darwin's expressed intention to steer clear of that particular origin.
 
DAVID: I agree Darwin did not offer any explanation as to origin of life, but his Swiss-cheese theory of how evolution works offers no backward-looking hint to help us.-Then why take me to task? And why take Darwin to task for not tackling a problem he felt unable to solve? In any case, bearing in mind your own convictions, yet again here is Darwin's conclusion, taken from my edition of Origin: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one.” Please explain your objections to this.
 
DAVID: The Darwinist abiogenesis scientists keep referring to RNA appearing and 'evolving' into life. That whole area of research thought is contaminated by atheistic wishes for simple chance evolution. I think the author was influenced by those tall tales.-Yes indeed, it is the atheist abiogenenesis scientists you should be taking to task, along with those theists who also misrepresent Darwin's theory for their own purposes. I must again take you to task for condoning what you yourself admit is misrepresentation.