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- From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
- Subject: Re: Kalki definitions
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:45:29 GMT
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- Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu) wrote:
- : In article <VZTHuB4w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- : writes:
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- Kalki's definition of abiogenesis: NOTE IT WELL!
-
- : >"Abiogenesis" means the proposition that living organisms were formed
- : >out of nonliving matter over a period of time solely by the action of
- : >the laws of physics on the initial distribution of that matter.
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- : Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-
- Thanks, Mickey, I was looking for this.
-
- Kalki -- you stated this definition and yet totally refused to debate
- a viable theory for the occurrence of life. You're probably going to
- say that even if something resembling a living cell formed out of
- nonliving matter, something metaphysical had to happen to make that
- something "living", according to your consciousness definition.
-
- Please provide scientifically observable evidence of consciousness
- in single-celled organisms. Then we can debate what would
- constitute the "transition phase" in this scenario.
-
- Jim Acker
- jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov
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