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Originally posted by soup sandwich
Maybe the theory you really have a problem with is not evolution, but rather "abiogenesis", which is the theory that life can arise spontaneously from non-life molecules under proper conditions.
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What defines a living creature? Is a virus alive? A viroid? Likely a prion is not, but that cuts the legs out from divisions based on self-replication. Certainly the experiments of Stanley Miller show that random construction of higher-order molecules under primordial conditions was possible, but that doesn't get you to a membrane-encapsulated self-replicating autonomous organism.
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