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- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <T048TB9w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 04:59:28 EST
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- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- johnsd2@vccnw01.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
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- > >> Please be real. To model even the simplest organic reactions mathematic
- > >> is intractable. (I assume p107 of the book you referred to earlier)
- >
- > >Well then the proposal of molecular evolution that life arose from
- > >reactions between simple organic molecules cannot be demonstrated, can
- > >it? And if it cannot be demonstrated, then all claims that it actually
- > >occurred are premature, aren't they? And if one believes it occurred,
- > >then one does so on faith alone, right?
- >
- > This has nothing to do with evolution. That's abiogenesis. Evolution
- > talks about live developing from other life, not "simple organic molecules"
-
- Oh? Then what does the following statement by Watson mean?
-
- "We see not only that the laws of chemistry are sufficient for
- understanding protein structure, but also that they are consistent with
- all known hereditary phenomena."
-
- "Complete certainty now exists among essentially all biochemists that
- the other characteristics of living organisms (for example,... the
- hearing and memory processes) will all be completely understood in terms
- of the coordinative interactions of small and large molecules."
-
- From The Molecular Biology of the Gene (pg. 67)
-
- > It does not bode will for you disproof of evolution that you do not know
- > what evolution is, Kalki. Cris Colby (FAQmaster Extraordinare) recently
- > posted some FAQs you should probably read, to prevent this sort of faux-pas.
-
- Yeah, yeah, we all know you pseudo-scientists are terrified of losing
- your grants.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki "and the rice must have given birth to the scorpions" Dasa
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