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- From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.194335.26282@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov13.014928.13749@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <4q58TB10w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:43:35 GMT
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- In article <4q58TB10w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >
- >Right, evidence. Then show us a species changing into another species.
-
- I take it from this remark you believe that speciation has never occurred?
-
- >Show us amoebas being formed from molecules. Go ahead, show us the
- >evidence!
-
- Look, experiments have been done involving zapping what we think it
- primordial air with electricity. Complex molecules have been formed.
- It is true that at the end of these experiments nothing has climbed
- out of the flask belching "I live, I live" but I would be much more
- worried if that *had* happened. You see, by the current theories of
- abiogenesis it takes a long time on a test tube the size of the Earth.
- We can't do it in a petri dish over the weekend, big deal.
-
- One more thing. Several times people have said "If I take X and do Y
- to it randomly I get the effect you want" and you complain that since
- there is an intelligence controlling the whole thing it isn't the
- same as 'nature' doing it. I take it from this that there is no
- conceivable experiment that we can do that you will accept.
-
- >Kalki "so the computer built itself, right" Dasa
-
- C Frog
-