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Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:26:20 GMT
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No, just Highly Improbable. But it obviously happened ;-)
Jon Kozan wrote:
> 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?)
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> >
> >
> > > the odds are just too far much.
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> > And just EXACTLY where are you getting these odds? Have you calculated them?
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> >
> > > 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
--
| Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp
| Please do not associate my personal views with my employer
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: Problems with Christianity and Darwinism
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| No, evolution didn't happen. As Sherlock Holmes states - or is attributed to have said, "After you eliminate the impossible whatever you are left with, however improbable, must be the answer." I'm not stating that Creation happened (not here, or (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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