re: #671 TradeBait

Okay, here’s what I could find. Sorry it took so long, but yes Lynn, I’m on a dialup connection.

Quite apart from the question of their provenance, not one of those quotes supports your contention that “every scientific text” you’ve read and “every documentary” you view that touches on the subject infers that life arose spontaneously. You’ve supposedly shown that a few scientists have offered that opinion, but that’s not what you claimed.

You claimed that they were teaching that the origins of life on earth are “settled scientifically.” But you only supply two quotes that ostensibly deal with origins of life and the first one is simply an opinion offered by a Creationist website, not by a scientist and having nothing to do with teaching. The second one is a blatant distortion, as it omits the first two words of the sentence (“And yet…”) and places an upper case letter at the beginning of its stripped quote. In context, Dr. Urey’s quote actually seems to address the apparent contradiction between assertions of the complexity of life and the acceptance by some of its natural origins “as a matter of faith.” I don’t believe that quote meant what you (and others who have abused it in the name of Creationism) seem to think it means.

None of the rest of the quotes you’ve provided support any of the claims you’ve made on this thread, as they don’t address origins of life at all.

And I have a hard time believing that you can load this site (and especially use its functions) on dial-up. I have enough trouble with an old computer on FIOS.