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- From: bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Eve Mitochondia?
- Message-ID: <11205@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:29:05 GMT
- References: <30608@castle.ed.ac.uk> <8okTXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
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- In article <8okTXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- >gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes:
- >
- >> While the "Eve" hypothesis is not proven,and is in my view
- >I posted the following article some time ago, but since the
- >"Mitochondrial Eve" issue seems to be coming into vogue again, here it
- >is one more time:
- >
- >From Back to Godhead magazine, Sept/Oct 1992
- >
- >WAS THERE AN EVE?
- >
-
- What a disappointing article. I licked my lips as I started in on
- the first couple of pages, thinking it was going to be an
- excellent scientific treatise on a subject that I'm not terribly
- well informed on. Only after wading trough the whole article do I
- finally discover that it is as mired in mysticism and religious
- drek as any creationist story.
-
- Oh well. Just goes to show what happens when you hold unrealistic
- hopes for alt.atheism. Kind of like firing up 'rn' and watching
- half of the posted articles disappear in a single abortion kill
- file entry.
-
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- Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
-
- "Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was
- dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I
- doing something wrong?"
- James Nicoll
-
- Q. How many Heisenbergs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A. If you know the number, you don't know where the light bulb is!
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