Originally posted by theophilus
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How life first arose and what happens to it after it first arose are two totally separate issues. Moreover, evolution still works regardless of how life first came about. It matters not whether it was zapped into place ex nihilo or if it came about through purely naturalistic means. Either. Way. It. Still. Works.
I think that you may not grasp that evolution is merely the name we have given to how life changes, adapts and diversifies over time. That it does so is an observable fact.
And evolution takes place because, essentially, it's unavoidable in that it is built right into the molecules. The chemistry of DNA makes it unavoidable due to the fact that DNA doesn't replicate perfectly meaning that each generation is going to be a little different from the one before it.
Now, any time you have imperfect self-replicators in an environment of limited resources, the result is going to be a tendency of those best suited to acquire and use the resources to produce more offspring.
This will continue to happen again and again, over and over as life changes and adapts to its environment.
Furthermore, no means has ever been observed that would ever prevent numerous small changes from accumulating into larger scale changes over scores of generations. Nor would prevent those larger scale changes from also accumulating over an even longer period of time.
Isn't it wondrous that God put into place such a marvelous process as evolution?
1. In the same way that atomic theory does not explain the origin of atoms or hydraulic theory does not explain how fluids first came about.
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