Science good, religion bad?

[robsia]

I assume you have read Darwin's book then.

Sorry, I haven't got round to it yet and it was always my understanding that the book did not actually deal with how life began on earth.

So how does he explain the origin of life on Earth? Understanding of course, that this would be the opinion of a man from 1859. What's his take on it?

How did those first amino acids get there?

[robsia]

Well, I just skim-read the first 3 chapters and read the explanatory notes at the beginning of the other chapters (which explain what the chapter is about) and I didn't see anything about the origins of life itself. He talks about pigeons a lot though.

So I'm not quite sure from where you got your interpretation of what Darwin's book is about, cos it isn't the book itself.

I found it here:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin.html

. . . if you'd like to read it - maybe you can find something I missed ;)

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