@DiversityDriven,
DiversityDriven;57818 wrote:Was there evolution before life?
Plainly speaking, no. Evolution requires life to exist for it to take effect. More specific, evolution is a
property of life. It is a basic mechanism of life and is only applicable to living organisms.
Quote:We know you can claim that there was after life.
Correct. Evolution requires life to exist for it to take effect.
Quote:Evolution cannot function without something to manipulate.
Correct. Again, evolution requires life to exist for it to take effect.
Quote:Where did that, that is subject to evolution, come from?
Are you asking where life itself came from or where did the switches and dials come from? Life is theorized to have started when complex protein and amino acid chains were formed due to chemical reactions caused by the heat and radiation of both the Sun and Earth. Scientists theorize that life not only started in the water, it started in the ice. Ice gives an excellent ground for these chains to form, oddly enough.
Now, where did the bits that "are subject to evolution" come from? It's built in... it's very nature makes it subject to such a mechanism. If the instructions used to reproduce are imperfect or are altered, and the resulting lifeform survives, it's an evolutionary step. It could be good, bad or just benign.
Quote:Where did evolution get it's first subject from?
When reproduction resulted in modified offspring.
Regardless of asexual or sexual reproduction, if the offspring's genetic code varies
even the slightest from its parent, it's an evolutionary step. The environment supplies the rest.
Quote:You science fundies should have at least a wild guess? Or is it you can't think past evolution?
What, do you want a specific lifeform? Good luck with that.
Quote:Blind me with some of that science you keep talking about?
Well, thereya go.