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PhilVaz
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I shall discredit these now. The general short answer to your objections is here or here: abiogenesis is not biological evolution. Please also note where your objections come from. They are not found in the mainstream scientific literature.
Rheins << 12 - Oxygen problem: Life could not originate where there is oxygen >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution, so it is irrelevant to biological evolution. However, your point 12 is discredited here.
Rheins << 13 - Life could not survive without continual oxygen >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution. Point 13 discredited.
Rheins << 15 - Life can not originate without water. But there can be no water without oxygen >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution. Point 15 discredited.
Rheins << 16 - A reducing atmosphere (no oxygen) would produce life-killing peroxides >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution. Point 16 is discredited here.
Rheins << 25 - Extremely complicated chemical combinations not found in nonliving material exist in living tissue >>
Origin of Life, or how non-life got to life, is not biological evolution. Point 25 discredited.
If you want to believe God created the first life, or God created the whale from nothing, or God created coal from nothing, or God created the bacterial flagellum from nothing, etc you are free to believe that as a Catholic.
But those miracles are not scientific ideas, scientific hypotheses, or scientific theory. Science by definition deals with the natural, not the supernatural. Understand this and you will have no problem agreeing with me as a Catholic that: (1) creation by God is a fact (i.e. it is true), (2) biological evolution is a scientific theory that explains how God did it, (3) but Creationism is not a scientific theory since it does not fit the definition of natural science.
Phil P
Rheins << 12 - Oxygen problem: Life could not originate where there is oxygen >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution, so it is irrelevant to biological evolution. However, your point 12 is discredited here.
Rheins << 13 - Life could not survive without continual oxygen >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution. Point 13 discredited.
Rheins << 15 - Life can not originate without water. But there can be no water without oxygen >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution. Point 15 discredited.
Rheins << 16 - A reducing atmosphere (no oxygen) would produce life-killing peroxides >>
Origin of Life is not biological evolution. Point 16 is discredited here.
Rheins << 25 - Extremely complicated chemical combinations not found in nonliving material exist in living tissue >>
Origin of Life, or how non-life got to life, is not biological evolution. Point 25 discredited.
If you want to believe God created the first life, or God created the whale from nothing, or God created coal from nothing, or God created the bacterial flagellum from nothing, etc you are free to believe that as a Catholic.
But those miracles are not scientific ideas, scientific hypotheses, or scientific theory. Science by definition deals with the natural, not the supernatural. Understand this and you will have no problem agreeing with me as a Catholic that: (1) creation by God is a fact (i.e. it is true), (2) biological evolution is a scientific theory that explains how God did it, (3) but Creationism is not a scientific theory since it does not fit the definition of natural science.
Phil P
