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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <asiFuB3w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 04:56:09 EST
- References: <1992Nov17.154852.11082@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:
-
- > >Good. Test the inference. Create a set of initial conditions (sole
- > >criterion--no living organisms of any kind present), allow the
- > >conditions to vary in whatever way you like, and see if you observe life
- > >coming into existence from non-life. Look for, say, an E. coli, or even
- > >a T4 phage. That shouldn't be too difficult.
- >
- > You must be deaf, or dumb, or both (now, what meaning of dumb I am
- > using? Hmmmmm...). *Nobody* who thinks abiogenesis happened is saying
- > random molecules bumped into each other and, lo and behold, a cell
- > appeared.
-
- time t0 ==> no life
- time t1 ==> ?????? (You tell us, is this life or not? Yes or no?)
- time t2 ==> life
-
- Talk about deafness!
-
- > *Furthermore*, evolution is not abiogenesis. Let's return to that topic
- > for a while, shall we? Do you or don't you agree that people, among
- > other things, evolved from the first replicating <whatever>, however
- > they were formed?
-
- No. Let's get this established first. Abiogenesis says that life "came"
- from non-living matter, right? Yes or no?
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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