Originally Posted by: kingdavid

Originally Posted by: Raskolnikov...Actually, that's all a very natural and predictable biproduct of Carbon Chemistry.[/QUOTE]I doubt it.
If it were, then scientists would be doing a lot better than cloning, I think.

The trouble with cloning is getting a DNA sequence from one cell to another without damaging it. DNA is a very delicate chain of protines and so I'm sure you can see the trouble presented by sucking it out of a cell with a tiny metal needle then injecting it into another without anything becoming damaged in the process.

However, those protines (which are very complicated molecules, by the way) form very readily under the conditions Scientists believe existed on the Earth billions of years ago and this has been proven time and time again in experiments.

If you really want to get a handle on what Evolutionary Theory is saying, you should find yourself some copies of The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins and read them.

Very tough reads, but also very informative.



[QUOTE=kingdavid]By the way, I love people who disagree with me, coz if they got a basis for what they're saying, there's something to be learnt from them.