See, you are wrong again. It is mostly biology. Why would I? If there is a mass increase it is negligible.
Picky, picky, picky - there would be NO biology without chemistry!! Why??? Maybe because it was a part of what was under discussion??:bugeye: And there IS an increase in mass which, while very small, does add up over billions of years.
Of course there would be. Biology started already before there was chemistry. It was called the natural history of life.
Yeah - right! I suppose you also believe in the Easter Boar, eh? Chemistry was still chemical reactions even before it had that name...
To be fair I thought he meant space dust. Actually Spurious was entirely correct and in agreement with us. Although he was be a bit off a nitpick Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Easy: within a population there is variation between the individuals. Some of these individuals are more succesful relative to other to produce offspring. At least some of this variation is hereditary. The selective fitness of an individual, that is its relative success to produce viable offspring, is known as natural selection. Cumulative directional selection can lead to the emergence of or specification of form and function; evolution. Now you do it with chemistry. You can't. Or alternatively look here: http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/index.html Nothing at all on chemistry.
TABLE 1 Reported flux rates of extraterrestrial dust onto the Earth, with references, normalized to gm/year over the whole Earth. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Calculate total dust fall in 4.5 billion years ... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Total dust fall as a fraction of the current Earth mass ... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! [In other words, the Earth's total mass increases by one tenth of one millionth, or one one-hundred-thousandth of a percent, over the entire 4.5 billion years] Calculate the volume occupied by the total 4.5 billion year dustfall calculated above ... Assume dust density 2.0 g/cm3 (Love, Joswiak & Brownlee, 1994) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Calculate the thickness of a layer of equivalent volume on the surface of the Earth ... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Source: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/moon-dust.html
You're just being silly. Without chemical reactions there is no life at all. And I'm sure you know that quite well.
You're very transparent, Monkey - doing nothing but being provocative in an attempt to goad me into loosing my cool. I'm no coward and you know that I never claimed that evolution could be be explained through chemistry. BUT, as I said, try explaining it without it. I think even most school children understand that chemical changes in DNA are necessary for evolution to proceed. Without those chemical changes and rearrangements, evolution would have halted. Mutations aren't just simply "biological" changes ONLY - there's chemistry at the base of every one of them.
Oh, I'll shut up alright - because arguing with a flame-baiter is usless. I'm not going to give you what you want.