And a benefit, as far as creationists are concerned, of connecting the topic of the origin of life and the topic of diversification of life is that doing so exposes the "soft underbelly" of evolution: if creationists are intrigued by gaps in our knowledge of evolution, they are delighted by gaps in our knowledge of the origin of life.
Regarding the natural origin of life as "the soft underbelly" of evolution, creationists argue that it is impossible, improbable, or insusceptible to scientific investigation.
That's not "soft"; that's just evolution.
Between 1969 and 1972, Dean's improvising energy became crucial to the evolution of Soft Machine.
Instead of a soft landing of peaceful evolution towards a democratic constitutional monarchy, we are likely to see a violent transition".
This week, we learned that Christine O'Donnell, the newly nominated Republican Party Senate candidate in Delaware believes that masturbation is a form of adultery and that evolution is "soft science".
We performed simulations on the temporal evolution of soft spherocylinders, using a molecular dynamics algorithm implemented on GPU architecture.
She has also suggested in past television interviews that evolution is soft science, and questioned the utility of financing AIDS programs.
More precisely, the proposed model adopts the concept of evolution of soft domain microstructure with deformation originally proposed by Mullins and Tobin.
You would never suspect reading The Magic of Reality that many reputed scientists with credentials far above Dawkins' are seriously asking if the universe is conscious, if mind creates action at the subatomic level, if purpose can be understood as a property of the cosmos, if "soft inheritance" allows for evolution without classic gene mutations, and so on.
