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- From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.172811.11653@aurora.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:28:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.163256.9310@aurora.com> <uqV9TB9w165w@kalki33>
- Reply-To: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Organization: The Aurora Group
- Lines: 31
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- In article <uqV9TB9w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >Well, if you want to get into quantum interpretations, I suppose the
- >argument can never be settled. Of course, quantum scientists are still
- >hotly debating the meaning of their own theory.
-
- Which brings up another fatal flaw in your "proof." Your argument
- rests on the information content of known laws. It completely
- ignores all the unknown laws which undoubtedly exist.
-
- As the uranium decay experiment shows, it is possible for information
- to come out of nowhere, or at least out of nowhere that we can see.
- If your argument doesn't accept this, your argument is worthless.
-
- >. . . --that given a certain set of initial
- >conditions, the known laws of physics and a few billion years, it is
- >"probable" that abiogenesis will occur-- we show that in a model based
- >on these assumptions, it is not in fact "probable" that abiogenesis will
- >occur.
-
- You also make assumptions, and in your case, many of your assumptions
- are known to be false.
-
- >But there are certainly many scientists
- >whose stated goal is to find a unified explanation for all natural
- >phenomena which will utilize the simplest possible mathematical
- >structure and the smallest possible number of postulates.
-
- Either name one, or stop spewing such bizarre, unfounded crap.
- --
- Mark Isaak "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
- isaak@aurora.com generation is humbled by nature." - Philip Lubin
-