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- From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- Subject: Re: On God and Science
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.122611.21699@city.cs>
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- Organization: City University, London
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:26:11 GMT
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- esot@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Sotnak) writes:
- >Mr. Tun has made the mistake of claiming that since the
- >(antecedent) probability of life existing (or having come into existence) is
- >so low, supernatural agency must be involved. Another mistake in judgment.
-
- I would not have said low, but rather zero - ie impossible. The
- mistake is in assuming that if there are enough `tries' then
- something that is impossible becomes possible.
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