From: "Gary Britt" 

So you wouldn't oppose a statement in all evolution textbooks that says:
Evolution is a theory of how living things have developed over time, but
evolution does not address in any way how life came into existence or was
created in its first instances.  Evolution does not attempt to answer or
address what were the first life forms to exist on Earth or how those life
forms came into existence or were otherwise created.

Gary

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:hjsln1dtj50aie3ijlf9nlhh4evmbt8tnp{at}4ax.com...
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news::
> > I've been merely pointing out that the hypotheses regarding the
development
> > of life from something not alive all the way to modern man are obviously
not
> > based upon direct observation and include many assumptions.
>
> I've been ignoring the statements about "the development of life from
> something not alive", but perhaps it is time to point out that no
> scientist has ever done more than SPECULATE about that particular point.
> For example, Richard Dawkins has written about some conceivable mechanisms
> by which the first life might have started, but he has very clearly
> labelled such writing as speculation and not science.
>
> The issue of how the first life was created is NOTHING to do with
> evolution.
>
> John
>

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