This is still my favorite example of how the atheist-ideologue-scientist's mind grasping for an answer to the improbability of their origin of life scheme will grasp at any straw, or driftwood, to try to avoid dealing with it. The now largely forgotten P. Z. Myers (he was really big in blogland and the atheism industry back then) was trying to make the issue of a containing membrane in the first organism go away by, among other things, mistaking the issues of "complexity" with complex functionality. Atheists, especially those in science, are really shitty at thinking about things like what words mean and what they don't mean and when meanings might seem similar but aren't, really. He's hardly alone, I've shown, over and over again, that scientist-ideologues of atheism are always inserting their ideology directly into science and the teaching of science without anyone noticing, we're so used to that happening, or objecting to it.
This was such an obviously stupid metaphor for the containing membrane of a one-celled organism ONE MADE BY A FACULTY MEMBER IN A BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF AN ACCREDITED AMERICAN UNIVERSITY! that the group posting it is Myers' sworn enemies, the intelligent design industry.
I will note that Myers slips in a dig at those who believe in intelligent design, claiming that most of them don't have any training in biology. But that's certainly as true of those who believe in his atheist scheme of non-design. There are people who promote intelligent design who are more eminently qualified than Myers in biology, some of them holding probably more prestigious faculty positions in accredited universities which are not bastions of intelligent design. I would like to know who the audience who were listening to and chuckling along with PZ were because I'd bet that most of them know crap about biology. NO ONE WHO KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT THE BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF CELLULAR WALLS COULD HONESTLY NOT CRINGE AT WHAT HE COMPARES THOSE TO. A cell wall is functional, not merely accidental and inert. His comparison with a wall of debris on a lake shore and a human constructed wall, made for a functional purpose, was as logically inept as it was just plain stupid and lazy.
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