Atheism

[simbagirl]

I'm doing some revision on stuff we touched on briefly at the start of last time and doing shedloads of extra reading. I've come across some theories for how life evolved from what was a prebiotic reducing atmosphere (meaning that it promotes the addtion of hydrogen to molecules and the removal of oxygen and the reduction in oxidation state of

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[clouddweller]

plagiarising (or the thought of it) scares me so much.....
I reference obsessively in essays now:-P

[deronn66]

You have probably heard of the Miller Urey experiment, but here it is for your enjoyment:

http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html

Also its possible to believe in everything you state and believe there is a god. As it is possible to accept evolution and believe in some sort of god.

Without getting too philosophical, its impossible to prove it either way.

I hate philosophy.

[simbagirl]

It was all based on that in fact, that was what got mentioned in the lecture, but I read up on it because it wasn't really explained in any depth.
Well, I don't believe there's a god, but this sort of thing says to me that if there is a god then that god isn't a designer. Although if god isn't the designer then I don't see the point in there being one at all really...

[johncoxon]

Faith =/= creationism.

[deronn66]

I was so confused as to what you meant by =/= I started a forum thread on it.

At an educated guess, we all assume you mean '≠'.

[simbagirl]

I'm thinking that's what it means....

[johncoxon]

Yes, if you can be bothered to look up the symbol and post it. I don't happen to know it offhand.