Does a Paramecium Have DNA?
Why I’m a skeptic about Darwinian evolution.
For some reason I just can’t put my head around the idea that at a certain point in time there was no living thing in the universe and then — Voila! — as if by magic some primordial goo came together in some new way to form a living organism. An amoeba? A paramecium? With DNA?
It must have been minute, yet incredibly resilient, because it survived.
And then, it mutated. And mutated some more. And eventually grew legs and climbed out of the swamp to live on land.
Is it O.K. to say I don’t believe it?
I remember being a kid watching these nature shows where they tell you, while you’re watching a great white shark devour some hapless victim, “Over a period of 200 million years this animal evolved into nature’s most fine-tuned killing machine.” Do they mean it evolved from a paramecium to a shark over some great period of time? Or did it evolve from a cheerful, friendly shark to a cold-blooded killer over that period of time?
Has anyone in the world created living organisms by means of the raw materials supplied by nature? I know we’ve seen cloning, but that uses actual living material as a starting point. If they succeeded, did they also imagine that this could have happened by accident?
