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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: On God and Science
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:51:29 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec20.003729.10684@aurora.com> <20DEC199214091069@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> <1992Dec20.223129.25238@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1992Dec22.122611.21699@city.cs>
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- In article <1992Dec22.122611.21699@city.cs>, lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- |> 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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- How would you justify this "zero" claim?
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- jon.
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