Evolution & Abiogenesis were originally one subject.

Like Georges Lematre and Gregor Mendel and Francisco Ayala and Michael Heller and Jefferts Schori?

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Scientists have distinguished between abiogenesis and evolution ever since the terms were first coined.The creationist desire to muddle them up I attribute to what I think of as ritual wrongness. It's like their pretense that dinosaurs are still walking the earth. Because people who know more than they do take the trouble to correct their error, they think they must have something to gain by being wrong.They don't, they just look ignorant.

It's a single standard --- the truth. There's an old proverb to the effect that the thief thinks everyone else steals.Just because creationists have no intellectual integrity doesn't mean that no-one else does.

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