home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!sgigate!odin!fido!solntze.wpd.sgi.com!livesey
- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: On God and Science
- Message-ID: <1hg5dhINNt2e@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 23:27:45 GMT
- References: <n1315t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Organization: sgi
- Lines: 24
- NNTP-Posting-Host: solntze.wpd.sgi.com
-
- In article <n1315t@ofa123.fidonet.org>, Dr.Pepper@f241.n103.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- |>
- |> > From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- |> > Message-ID: <1992Dec22.122611.21699@city.cs>
- |>
- |> > 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.
- |>
- |> Aww, guess that's it for evolution. Guess there's nothing left but to state
- |> the theory of creationism. Please do so.
-
- That's one thing he could do. Another is to explain how, if the
- possibility is zero, God came into existence. A third would be
- his long-promised "easy" and "logical" explanation of the fossil
- record using a Flood model.
-
- jon.
-