A Naturalistic Fairy Tale-Part VI

And then did there exist a “warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine (sic) compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were found.” (1) But that fellow died of course, and we did come to know things to be different than originally conceived by our prophet, who liberated us from oppression and superstition. Though we are grateful, we realize he is quite dead and buried, and his ideas have little to do with what we think now. And being very very intelligent, we did discover that biopolymers possibly did arise (of course not by ‘chance’ or ‘random processes’). (2) Of course, we know that the prophet was correct with his notions of a primordial soup, because life is not observed as arising from anything other than life today. So, we do remain thankful, although not in a direct way, to the Great Prophet. (Continued in Part VII; I don’t think this will take billions of years to complete, but who knows?).

(1) http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/spontaneous-generation.html
(2) http://www.pnas.org/content/93/2/839.full.pdf+html