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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
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- Subject: Re: On God and Science
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:30:05 GMT
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- In article <22DEC199200180519@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>, lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:
- |>
- |> Well, the bad ones are uninformative. There are good ones, though.
- |> (Again, let me refer to Robert Shapiro's _Origins_ book, in which
- |> he compares several different theories of the origin of life and
- |> assesses their relative (im)probabilities.)
-
- We've been over this before. Merely estimating the supposed probabilities
- of the few current hypotheses on the origin of life (by making certain additional
- assumptions about the nature of the Universe) is *not* evidence of anything.
-
- Unless he has managed to eliminate all extrinsic assumptions, and has managed to
- cover the range of all *possible* models of abiogenesis, the probabilities he
- cites are just wild-ass guesses.
-
- |> I think there *are* meaningful probabilities to be discussed regarding
- |> the origin of life.
-
- Yep, but most of us who have studied the issue disagree. There is simply not
- yet enough evidence to make more than a gross estimate for certain specific
- models.
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