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5. How could the first living cell begin? That’s a greater miracle than for bacteria to evolve into man. How could that first cell reproduce? Just before life appeared, did the atmosphere have oxygen or did it not have oxygen? Whichever choice you make creates a terrible problem for evolution. Both must come into existence at about the same time.
As well as the confusion between evolution and abiogenesis it is worth pointing out that Brown is completely at sea on the issue of oxygen.
In fact it is unlikely that there was any significant amount of free oxygen on Earth when life began - and photosynthesis is responsible for changing that situation. It is completely false to say that life requires oxygen - indeed it would almost certainly have been a lethal poison to early life.
This error in itself shows how appallingly uninformed Brown is. (Does he not even know that plants do not need free oxygen and in fact produce it as a byproduct of photsynthesis ?)
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