Creation? Evolution?

and the flood just happened to sort the animals it killed and spared in such a way as to put certain animals in certain areas (like the marsupial dominance of australia) and bury certain other now extinct animals in the same common order of depth throughout the world?

 

I'm bumping this because another though just occurred to me, a memory of high school biology of all things.

Isn't it some sort of fundamental law of biology that "life comes only from pre-existing life"? I'm really weak on science. If anyone has a good science background or can recommend some pertinent links that are understandable in laymen's terms, I'd really appreciate it. TIA

 

That sounds familiar, but I'm not certain if it's true or not.

 

that sounds like a corollary for the definition of life, namely that something alive must be able to pro-create.

obviously our observations have been that the only living things we see have parents. the issue is can something non-living produce something living. if you look at the simplist forms of life, i don't think it's a vast leap to think of them as being little more than molecular machines made from organic compounds (organic in the sense that these compounds will end up forming the basis for pretty much all life on earth). the issue then is where did these organic compounds come from.

 

One of the better posts in this thread. I've thought something similar for a long time, but never articulated it this much. I also had a wild theory about homosexuality as a recessive genetic defense mechanism against overpopulation - pretty much on the same basis.

Plate tectonics is close to irrefutable science to me. The over focus on exposed land mass is what's wrong with the analysis. Just pay attention to all of the rifts and induction zones, regardless of whether they are exposed, and it is visibly common sensical. I used to have a globe that had the ridges mapped out as an overlay. It was soo cool to take it off and look at it. My brother remarked that it looked like the fissures in a human skull, which I thought was cool in one of those quaint natural coincidence ways.

As far as I.D., the only part that makes any sense to me is a deist viewpoint - perhaps specifically some form of pandeism or panendeism (I cannot spell that word).