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Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:20:50 GMT
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Evolution is impossible.
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=8797
-Jon

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> Jon Kozan wrote:
> 
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
> > > 
> > > > In fact the odds are so _not_ with [life's formation] (about 1 in 10 with • 50,
> > > > give or take 10, zeros chance) that we could never have come into being
> > > > without some other force/being/etc behind it.
> > > 
> > >  Exactly!  And evolution is that force!
> > > 
> > >   More precisely, where are you getting those figures?  It differs • markedly
> > > from the estimations for number of inhabitable planets in the galaxy, much
> > > less the universe.
> > 
> > 
> > (It's Friday, so I have time to do this :-))
> > 
> > Evolution is not a force - it's:
> > a) a theory, involving
> > b) random chance
> > 
> > Random chance cannot product life.
> 
> Prove it (what's that?  We've said time and time again you can't prove a • negative?)
> 
> 
> 
> > the odds are just too far much.
> 
> And just EXACTLY where are you getting these odds?  Have you calculated them?
> 
> 
> >  Indeed
> > today's leading edge evolution scientists have either a) ceased discussing • the
> > random chance and time tenants of evolution since they don't work out; or b)
> > claim that because they don't, we must have come from an alien race (another
> > intelligent life form)
> 
> We didn't even have to come from an INTELLIGENT life form.  Bacteria/viruses • in
> extraterrestrial matter could have evolved into us IF we didn't evolve from • base
> elements here.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> | Tom Stangl, Technical Support          Netscape Communications Corp
> |      Please do not associate my personal views with my employer



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  Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
 
No, just Highly Improbable. But it obviously happened ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (26 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
 
(...) Prove it (what's that? We've said time and time again you can't prove a negative?) (...) And just EXACTLY where are you getting these odds? Have you calculated them? (...) We didn't even have to come from an INTELLIGENT life form. (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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