On The Backs of Crystals - Michael Ruse, Expelled

In the movie Expelled with Ben Stein, Darwinist Michael Ruse suggests the outlandish theory that life began from non-life by a bunch of chemicals getting together "on the backs of crystals." That theory is a much greater leap of faith than suggesting a higher intelligence - an intelligent designer - created life. Ruse is not engaging in science here, although he purports to be a scientist. He is engaging in an ideology or worldview called Naturalism, which takes just as much faith, if not more, than Christianity to sustain its beliefs.

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[Johnny Tsunami]

"on the backs of crystals"... "I just told youuuu!"... Lol...And these are our top scientists? My todler should put in a resume

[wakeus777]

are you sure he's not referring to crystal math? obviously you must be smoking it to believe Ruse's explanation

[trollforlife]

1. I'm not an atheist.

2. The separation of amino acids is very different topic than the one I was discussing. It's not even abiogenesis proper.

[5tonyvvvv]

There is no chemical pathways to separate RIGHT and LEFT handed amino acids you atheist drone!

[trollforlife]

The reason why Crystals are a viable explanation is because they're a simple natural structure that has (a) recursive self-replication, and (b) differential mutation. To understand the recursive self-replication of crystals, you'd at least need to have taken enough abstract algebra to understand the theory of symmetry groups, which is typically a 3rd year college-level course. So unless your toddler can do that, your post is just stupid.

[Sam Howard]

at least it shows a thoughtful hypothesis, as apposed to "god always existed for no reason, and HE started it all".

Your toddler is very unfortunate to have you as a parent.

[trollforlife]

You fools do realize that there's more to the explanation than what Ruse said, right?