The Origin of Life

January 27th, 2011 admin


There are two predominate schools of thought when it comes to the origins of life. Both are worth taking a second look.

One thought was pioneered by Charles Darwin who questioned the prevailing thought on the origins of life. Darwin produced a theory of natural selection. This line of thinking suggested that animals adapted to their environment through an extended period of time. The strongest and most fit of a species caused an inferior class of species to be rendered extinct through a process of superior mate selection. In essence, this belief suggests there will come a time when humans as we see them today will become something better or more highly evolved than we are right now.

This premise takes a variety of hominids as proof that there were stages that indicate an in-between creature from other life forms to humanity as we see it today. A hominid is believed to be proof that less advanced creatures developed into a more advanced animal. It is possible, in this belief structure, to suppose mankind is simply the next stage of superior development and our ancestors once roamed the earth as primates.

The second school of thought is that an intelligent designer crafted the world. This thought process is considered believable due to the advanced nature of human beings and a fossil record that indicates humans lived in coexistence with primates and other species of animal life. These would be the same animals we see in existence today. The fossil record also shows no evidence to support this link between humans and primates.

Consider a few quotes from Charles Darwin himself:

“But, as by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?” [1]

“Lastly, looking not to any one time, but to all time, if my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the species of the same group, must assuredly have existed.” [2]

“Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” [3]

This origin group also acknowledged that nine of the twelve classified hominids were discovered to be extinct primates and not a supposed missing link. [4]

The remaining classified hominid skeletons have been linked to modern human populations. [5]

The difficulty in defining origins from a scientific point of view is that no one alive was there. We have no direct observations of the origins of our planet and the life it contains from which to draw irrefutable conclusions.

We do have the fossil record and it has consistently pointed to a co-existence of species. Nothing in our current observable science indicates that mankind has become something different, nor do we observe other creatures turning into something uniquely different than their parents.

Interestingly both thought processes have scientific supporters, but in the end it comes down to a matter of faith. Is it more reasonable to believe that life began from no life and matter from no matter? Is it more reasonable to believe that there was order to the development of the earth and that individual species were created fully functional with the ability to procreate their individual species?

Maybe the origins of life look
designed because they are designed.

References:

[1] Ibid., 144.

[2] Ibid., 149.

[3] Ibid., 230.

[4] emporium.turnpike.net/

[5] emporium.turnpike.net/

By: Scott Langley

About the Author:
Scott Langley is a staff writer for ObviousTruths.com. Discover truth using simple everyday logic. Learn the truth about evolution and intelligent design. Obvious Truths: http://www.obvioustruths.com/



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There Are Acuvue Contacts For Everybody

January 26th, 2011 admin


Acuvue contacts are from Johnson and Johnson, a trusted name in a wide variety of products worldwide. Acuvue contact lenses all offer great sun protection, blocking up to 97% of UVB rays, as well as at least 82% of UVA rays, keeping your eyes protected from sun damage. They also have inside-out markers to tell you which side is the right one, therefore avoiding confusions. They also feature a light tint to it’s easy to spot inside the case, or in case it falls off. But unlike opaque lenses, they do not change your natural eye color.

Acuvue contacts have 5 families. Each family has its own features and functions which are especially made for particular conditions of the eye so users can fully utilize its features and see clearer and brighter.

The Acuvue Brand Family features the Acuvue Bifocal, which is especially made for those who suffer from Presbyopia. They feature the Pupil Intelligent Design which lets you see clearly near or far, even with different lighting conditions.

The Acuvue 2 Family has clear and colour contact lenses. Both kinds can be worn for six nights, or removed every day and then replace every two weeks. These lenses are for those who are near- or far-sighted. There are 3 enhancer colors for light eyes: Ocean Blue, Emerald Green and Aquamarine. There are also 7 opaque colors for both dark and light eyes: Jade Green, Hazel Green, Deep Blue, Sapphire Blue, Warm Honey, Chestnut Brown and Pearl Gray.

The Acuvue Advance Brand Family has two kinds: Advance with HydraClear, and Advance for Astigmatism. HydraClear keeps on wetting your eyes to keep them moisturized and fresh all day so you won’t feel uncomfortable like with other contact lenses which get too dry. Advance for Astigmatism keeps the lenses stable in your eye, so you get a consistent and clear vision specifically designed for Astigmatism. These lenses should be changed every two weeks.

For those who don’t want to clean and store their lenses, there are 1-Day Acuvue Contacts which comes with the Moist, or without. The Moist features Lacreon technology. It locks in moisture, keeping your eyes and contacts lubricated all day. And because you only use it for a day, you don’t use solutions.

The Acuvue Oasys Brand has kinds for near-/far-sighted people, for those who suffer from astigmatism and presbyopia. These lenses make you feel as if you are wearing nothing. The Oasys astigmatism variant also has stability points, keeping your lenses in place. The Oasys Presbyopia, on the other hand, features Stereo Precision Technology, giving you balanced vision wherever you look – near and far. These lenses may stay in your eyes for up to 6 nights, and then changed. You can also opt to remove them each day, and replace them every 2 weeks.

Acuvue contacts offer the utmost comfort for their users regardless of eye conditions that they suffer. From near-sighted people to those who have astigmatism, there is always an Acuvue for you which will give you clear vision, but still maintaining comfort and safety.

By: Adriana N.

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Shop online when looking for Acuvue contact lenses, eyeglasses and special effects lenses. Providing the widest selection of cheap contacts and designer metal eyeglass frames or plastic frames at huge savings when compared to retail prices.



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Impossible Issues

January 26th, 2011 admin


At its core, evolutionary theory suggests that life evolved through minute changes within organisms over long periods of time. These small changes, we are told, eventually make up all life and the complex systems that comprise our being.

If we are to accept this as true, how would the heart, which requires the brain to tell it to beat, function during its intermediary stages while the brain was evolving? When did the heart, which is a whole system by itself, decide to evolve and become a complex circulatory system? How did this circulatory system evolve in small increments separate from the heart if it needs all of its parts together to function?

What about the nervous system? When did a primitive unintelligent organism decide that it needed to develop a nervous system? Why did the organism need a nervous system if it survived without one? Why did it need a heart if it survived without one? When did a primitive organism decide it needed a muscular system, a respiratory system, and a digestive system?

How exactly did all of these complex systems evolve separate from each other if they need to work together to function?

Survival of the fittest is the principle that drives the evolutionary process. If these primitive creatures survived, why did they need to evolve beyond where they were? What made them grow and change? What made these primitive organisms decide they needed to become something different? Something better? Since there were no laws or purpose to govern these organisms, why did they need to change?

I am always amazed that the human race has known so little about what makes the complex systems that formulate life, yet people assume unintelligent organisms were able to create these things through a natural selection process.

How could we or any other creature develop such incredible complexity when we have struggled to understand the systems that define us as humans? This scenario is like suggesting that a baby designed a fully functional computer system. The baby has no idea how a computer system operates or for that matter, what it is, yet, this baby somehow developed the computer system.

Would you believe this story if it were reported on national television tonight? Yet, we are asked to accept the story that all life exists due to random unintelligent processes (something less than a baby’s intelligence). We are also asked to agree that these unintelligent forces somehow knew enough to create all of the complex systems we see in our world. This would even seem to be a fanciful scenario for the Brothers Grimm because to accept this line of reasoning requires a suspension of commonly understood reality. It also requires much more faith than saying a transcendent intelligence created all life.

Those that make the choice to hold to the theory of evolution no matter what the evidence suggests will come up with explanation that insists on making assumptions that suspend rational thought. This theory defies logic and does not conform to solid observable scientific discovery. The theory of evolution does not make sense in light of other multiple observations we can make about our known world.

Maybe evolution sounds impossible because it is impossible.

By: Scott Langley

About the Author:
Discover truth using simple everyday logic. Learn the truth about evolution and intelligent design. Articles, debate, and more. Obvious Truths: http://www.obvioustruths.com/



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