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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <owNDuB9w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 04:51:35 EST
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- rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe) writes:
-
- > In article <XLe5TB10w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >
- > >In order for systems of low information content to evolve into
- > >systems of high information content, there must be a source of
- > >high information content somewhere in order to "guide" the natural
- > >selection process. Now the question is, what is this source?
- >
- > I see a pattern here. You're objectifying information in the same way
- > that you've objectified consciousness. Information is not a substance
- > any more than heat is. Or are you still looking for caloric or
- > phlogiston? There is no law of "conservation of information" is
- > there? Why do you suppose that is?
-
- "Mass" is not a substance either, but a quantitative measurement of a
- physical system. We have conservation of mass, and we have conservation
- of information. What is the difficulty?
-
-
- > >In spite of the fact that the laws of physics are very simple, and in
- > >spite of the fact that scientists can not even begin to precisely
- > >specify any set of initial conditions for the origin of life,
- > >nevertheless, simply because they want to believe it, they claim that
- > >"in principle" there is such a set of initial conditions that will turn
- > >lifeless matter into living organisms in a certain period of time.
- >
- > Please point to two scientists that claim this and please include
- > documentation that the claim is made for the reason you cite, or
- > retract your strawman. A failure on your part to do either will gain
- > me a lot of credit on the talk.origins home game...
-
- James Watson in The Molecular Biology of the Gene, p. 54, which was
- quoted in another post.
-
- John Slater in Quantum Theory of Molecules and Solids, Vol. 1, p. vii.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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