Hi, I'm new to this site, and I must say its very comforting to be able to feel free to express my beliefs and feelings.
Its been 6 1/2 years since I've been free from the brain washing and yoke of religion and I have my Uncle to thank for that.
The problem is my father (A devote Christian) has got a friend of his engaging me in debate's all the time. The truth is I see no reason not to after all us Atheists are Objective and open to listening (not like most creationists who just block there ears and say La La La)
But this past week he posed a question to me that has been bothering me since so i signed up to this forum to seek some help from you guys. He pointed out that all we focus on is Natural Selection and not step one which is mutations. so i looked it up and it is true that mutations is not even 5 percent of the Atheistic literature why? shouldn't we start there as he points out that NS (Natural Selection)only comes after we have a mutation in the genotype that is of some what significance to its survival or reproduction. This guy being a biologist showed me some research on the DNA and posed the following question to me according to wisegeek.com which is the only source he found addressing this question there are only 10 million functional Proteins known in existence and the but the amount of possible combinations in the DNA is at least 10 to the 64 power that means 10 with 64 zeros following it so how can we get complex life from 1 single cell it's astronomically improbable? (in truth there is probably way more then 10 to the 64 power)
please someone help me or refer me to someone that could.
Steven
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