Creationist Reply…challenging!

[IrishEyes]

Sorry, I've been a slacker altely, and haven't kept up on many of these threads the way I should. This could have been an interesting topic, I wish it wouldn't have died.

One thing that I'd like to ask though...

From TeleMad:
I haven't looked into this topic for many years, but here are some old quotes (back from when I was a hard-core antievolutionist) I still have (the 'intro' is mine).

If you were a 'hard-core antievolutionist', what are you now?

[TeleMad]

A straight up evolutionist. I accept that all extant life is descended from a single common ancestor by undirected evolution. The evidence I have been shown, taught, or uncovered myself has removed my doubts.

However, I still have no idea how life first arose. That's still a fascinating mystery.

[Freethinker]

Originally posted by: TeleMad
However, I still have no idea how life first arose. That's still a fascinating mystery.

Yes it is. And the new excitement generated out of possible extraterrestrial sources is stimulating the discussion even more. The serious potential for life currently existing on Mars. The possibility that life is so common that it exists on meteors and comets. In fact that it developed not on Earth, but in space and landed here carried on meteors or such.

"Panspermia is a theory (more directly described as a hypothesis, as there is no compelling evidence yet available to support or contradict it) that suggests that the seeds of life are prevalent throughout the universe and life on Earth began by such seeds landing on Earth and propagating."

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
</a>

Obviously we are far from Abiogenesis being a problem for Evolution, as Creationists so like to claim.