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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <miw9TB10w165w@kalki33>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 20:09:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.165426.9390@aurora.com>
- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak) writes:
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- > In article <e0N3TB8w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- > >No one has ever seen a living organism arise from an assemblage
- > >of lifeless matter, have they?
- >
- > Actually, before the idea of spontaneous generation was finally put to
- > rest in the last century or so, people saw living organims arise from
- > lifeless matter all the time. At least, they thought they did.
- > Interesting, isn't it, that the idea of abiogenesis never became
- > controversial until the Creationists started feeling threatened?
-
- What is interesting is how many "scientists" bought the idea of
- spontaneous generation lock, stock and barrel, until other scientists
- brought them to their senses, as the scientists of the Bhaktivedanta
- Institute are attempting to do with those who have bought into the
- ridiculuous theory of evolution.
-
- > >I agree with you that, since no one can agree on a model for the
- > >evolution of life from matter, it is unscientific to claim that it
- > >happened. It is, therefore, an article of faith to state that one knows
- > >such evolution occured.
- >
- > Nonsense. At one time, life did not exist. Now it does. Obviously,
- > some kind of change took place in the interim. Far from being "an
- > article of faith," that's basic logic. At issue now is only which
- > model for that change best fits the data.
-
- What is your evidence that "at one time, life did not exist"?
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
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