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- From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
- Subject: Re: On God and Science
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.095527@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <1gr8nhINNl5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <22DEC199200180519@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:55:27 GMT
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- In article <22DEC199200180519@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>,
- lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:
-
- > I think there *are* meaningful probabilities to be discussed regarding
- > the origin of life.
-
- I wanted to firmly agree with Jim Lippard on this and go on to say that
- these probabilities can probably be estimated, eventually, by a series of
- experiments and observations partially guided by those experiments. I saw a
- number of people working on creating abiogenisis events at Alife III this
- summer (one of the hot topics is lipid membranes. The form spontaneosly and
- can partition water into partially seperate zones which allow very complex
- chemistry). Once we have a menu of abiogenisis techniques available (5-30
- years?) it will get much easier to get esimates of these probabilities.
-
- > Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- > Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
- > University of Arizona
- > Tucson, AZ 85721
-
- Dan
- Danwell@IASTATE.EDU
-