>I took a biochemistry class. The professor was an evolutionary scientist. I'll always remember what he said. "If you consider the huge amount of energy it takes to change one atom to another, it'll make you believe in the creation theory".
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>A& M is not exactly a bastion of liberal thinking! They got that ex CIA guy, Gates as chancellor now. The last time I saw him he was asking congress for more money to fight the evil soviet empire. He was asking for the money while the Berlin wall was being torn down.

So one "conservative" on the staff, make the whole University conservative?
Believe me, A&M is conservative by reputation, not by reality.

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>Evolution does not require atomes be changed (evolve through the periodic table). Evolution depends on mutation. The removal or rearrangement of molecules. A quanta of light will do it! Proximity to a flatulent rhino can aslo cause the effect!

Excuse me professor Thurber, I believe there are bonds formed and broken between molecules. Aren't molecules made of group of atoms? Isn't DNA (is it Di-rybo-Nuclaic-Acid?) anyways, isn't DNA made of carbons, nitrogen and oxygen? Aren't these atoms? Most of the type of mutation you talk about are harmful anyways. They are not the kind that will support life.

There was experiment done years ago that I read about a group of scientists that simulated the environment of prehistoric earth to see if they could cause a batch of DNA to mutate and form simple strand of something. They made the environment rich in Nitrogen and raised the temperature and used simulated lightening flashes. What they foudn out was that the molecules acutally degenerated into individual components and never was able to reform.

Scientist have been trying to recreate early earth for years to actually see evolution happen.