Abiogenesis is life from non-life.
So, for instance, if a bunch of styrofoam packing peanuts suddenly turned into racoons, that would be abiogenesis.
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I'll take a guess, probably more accurate too. Some complex molecules had the right chemical structure that allowed for self-replication under the right circumstances and it started from there.
What you are describing is magic.
Yes, I suppose in a manner of speaking that would be abiogenesis, but you'd sooner be able to walk through a wall due to quantum tunneling effects than something like that happening. Now self-replicating peptides in a swamp of amino acids, that's a little more likely.
Um, no, that's not quite right there, metherion.
Of course, don't let facts get in the way of your diatribe. Do carry on with your mud pies.
LOL That would indeed be abiogenesis. Specifically that would be "spontaneous generation", like how people used to think rotting meat created worms and such.
I suppose if there had been styrofoam peanuts back then, and raccoons had a habit of hiding in them and jumping out at people they might well have come to that conclusion.
So, for instance, if a bunch of styrofoam packing peanuts suddenly turned into racoons, that would be abiogenesis.
No. That would be science fiction.
My biological dictionary tells me this is true. However, it states that this was a theory, that involved things like all kinds of vermin being created from refuse. Including rats. Famous biologistm Louis Pasteur, however, tried this theory in sterile conditions and lo and behold. It doesn't work. Believe it or not! Biology has disproven this theory.
Tired of building Strawmen of evolution, our band of fundie heros turn to building Strawmen of abiogensis.
When asked to comment on the situation Rocky the Flying Squirrel replied: "Again? That trick never works!"
Film at eleven.
I don't think this quote belongs here.
Abiogenesis is life from non-life.
And "if a bunch of styrofoam packing peanuts suddenly turned into racoons," that would , technically, be abiogenesis. A supernatural, impossible form of abiogenesis, but abiogenesis nonetheless.
Actually that would be more on the Biblical creationist order of things, you know, like dirt becoming human, water becoming wine, loaves and fishes multiplying exponentially,etc., you know the miraculous sort of thing that is every religion's stock in trade.
"So, for instance, if a bunch of styrofoam packing peanuts suddenly turned into racoons, that would be abiogenesis."
No, that would be a ridiculous bullshit story that only a moron could believe. You know, like the bible!
That barely even qualifies as Spontaneous Generation, let alone abiogenesis, at least, abiogenesis in the way it's ACTUALLY defined.
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I just triggered Poe's Law in the BEST WAY!
Metherion
(if you guys go to the Crevo section in the Discussion and Debate section of foru.ms, you can see what I actually think a know a lot better.)
@metherion: crap. I was really hoping to see styrofoam packing peanuts turn into raccoons. Not because it proves anything, but just because it would be really nifty, and because we really need more raccoons around here.
Also, I like raccoons.
Dang it, people, knock it off with making these poe posts! >:(
All they do is waste the time of sensible folks (like those who submit/judge/comment on posts here at FSTDT) while giving aid and comfort to the fundies, who think they've got yet another like-mindlessed friend who is backing them up with an argument that that they'll probably regurgitate in all seriousness later .
~David D.G.
Creationism is an invisible sky-pixie poofing everything into existence from nothing.
So, for instance, if your god crapped the universe into existence after eating a giant burrito, that would be creationism.
Nope that's not it at all. It is a theory about the start of life, the simplistic forms of life and how they came to existence.
Creation is complex life coming out of nowhere.
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