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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <kNRmuB1w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 02:50:55 EST
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- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James) writes:
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- > Well, strictly speaking we have observed _effects_ which are interpreted
- > to have been supernovae (i.e. bright light, etc.)
- > Directly observed, no.
-
- It's a question of proximity. Whether I am a million parsecs away or one
- foot away, I still receive the "supernova" observation through my
- senses. But either way, the phenomenon can be said to have been
- "directly" observed, since it was actually seen and not just imagined.
-
- > >Has abiogenesis been observed? No it has not.
-
- > Again, directly observed, no. But there is reason to believe that we
- > have 'seen' one case, the effects of which are all around you(pl).
-
- I don't see what this "reason to believe" might be. No one has observed
- abiogenesis occurring from any distance, near or far. Abiogenesis has
- been imagined only. So there does not seem to be any comparison with the
- case of supernovas.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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