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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <98814@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:05:45 GMT
- References: <By0xz0.DGL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <kNRmuB1w165w@kalki33>
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- In-reply-to: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
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- In article <kNRmuB1w165w@kalki33>, kalki33!system@lakes writes:
- >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.
-
- And abiogenesis is observed from billions of years away. Looking at a
- fossil is neither more nor less direct than light from distant galaxies.
- Anything could have happened in the intervening space/time, yet we make
- do.
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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