Contender's Edge (@ContendersEdge)

@[email protected] @CynicalBroadcast @[email protected] The controversy is evolution vs creationism. Evolutionists contend that life evolved over a long period of time (millions of years) and that life started out as single celled organisms which gradually turned into to all the different forms of life you see today. Creationists, especially Young Earth Creationists, contend that God created the universe and all that is in it and that He made all things to reproduce after their own kind. They do not deny that there can be variations within kinds or that errors and mutations can occur within the gene pool and if you will take the time to visit sites like Answers In Genesis, Creation Ministries International, and the Institute for Creation Research, you will find this to be the case. What we do deny is that an amoeba can give rise to a plant or that an ape can give rise to a man. If DNA is programmed to produce cows and chickens, it will always continue to do so. It will never produce anything else. As far as Down Syndrome goes, we are not really witnessing new information being created, but rather the duplication of chromosomes already present. That is not really the same as the creation of new information. New information would require the appearance of genetic material foreign to the genetic blueprint. That is not the case with Down Syndrome. The extra chromosome, as you call it, is still a human chromosome. It is not the chromosome of a dog, a bat, or even a primate. It is still a human chromosome even though it may be a corrupted one. And even if plants can double their DNA bases in a single generation, the bases are not going to be anything different than what pertains to that plant. That is why every generation, corn always remains corn, grass will always be grass, and roses will always be roses. Will variation arise? Sure, but they will still be what they are. And if you would think about what the term "insert" means, you might understand why I think it is a misnomer when it is claimed that insertion mutation does not require any external push. And if the origins of life is a matter for chemists, even if they were able to replicate what they believe the conditions of the earth were when life began, the next question is how to get from point A to point B: How to go from an amino acid to a cell and then to life forms more complex.