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- From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:35:18 GMT
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- kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us wrote:
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- : A few amino acids and simple peptides. You think that's "close" to being
- : life? And that experiment was done 30 years ago. Surely in 30 years the
- : scientists should have gone from "close" to "life". The truth is that
- : chemicals, however complicated, are not and never will be "life" at all,
- : not even close, except in the imagination.
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- Kalki Dafta -- the process may have taken a million years.
- Provided you're willing to wait, go back and check then.
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- Why do I bother?
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- Jim Acker
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