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- From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
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- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:50:15 GMT
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- In article <P0kFuB12w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- writes:
-
- >Yes, this seems fair to say, with the added assertion that not only is
- >there no plausible mechanism for abiogenesis,
-
- I think I can safely jump on Dan's bandwagon and say to you Kalki...
- How can you understand the point that you make above and still not
- recognize that it invalidates *any* claims about the probability of
- abiogenesis?
-
- >but there is no
- >observational evidence either.
-
- This of course is false. What evidence we have isn't terribly
- compelling, but to say that there is none is putting your case a mite
- too strongly.
-
- >No one has ever seen life arising from
- >non-living matter.
-
- Nor is anyone here proposing that anyone ever should have, are they?
- I wish you could get Matthew's supernova point through your heads.
-
- >To us the origin of life is also a scientific problem, but we propose
- >that it is not reducible under any of the current mechanistic or
- >materialistic concepts of science. The origin of life, we claim, will
- >not be solved until science enlarges its paradigm to include nonphysical
- >but nevertheless real entities, including the soul, the Supersoul and
- >consciousness.
-
- Then why is it that when I asked you *how* we could do this, you
- didn't respond? You've been frothing at the mouth about the things
- scientists aren't willing to do, but I've eagerly asked for your
- guidance as to how I could go about doing it and you give me nothing
- in return. I'm left to conclude that you truly have nothing to offer.
- Please demonstrate that my conclusion is false or just go away.
-
- >Our hypothesis (that God is the origin of life) is not accepted by
- >materialistic science, which claims that the existence of God is not
- >within the realm of observation. This is false.
-
- In what way has it been falsified?
-
- >God can, and has been, observed.
-
- Has It been observed in some fashion that science could take notice
- of?
-
- >When we describe specific methods for observing the existence
- >of God, materialistic science refuses to adopt those methods,
-
- And yet again I ask WHAT METHODS?
-
- >thereby never succeeds in observing God. Not caring to admit that it has
- >not tried our methods
-
- And yet again I ask WHAT METHODS?
-
- > materialistic science instead claims that we are
- >simply making unfalsifiable assertions about the existence of a
- >nonmaterial entity. We therefore have no other choice than to conclude
- >that materialistic science has made up its mind that it does not want
- >God involved in its program,
-
- You have plenty of other choice IMHO. You could actually say
- something direct instead of talking about what you claim to have said
- before or will say in the future.
-
- >Kalki Dasa
-
- Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-