Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.origins Subject: Re: If You've Got the Time... Message-ID: <3302@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 14:59:16 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.3302 Posted: Wed Jul 25 14:59:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jul-84 05:46:52 EDT References: <896@akgua.UUCP>, <984@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 30 [from Mike Musing:] >The scientific mumbo-jumbo presented as a proof for creationism >missed an important point: the universe is BIG. There is a large number >of planets. The possibility of amino acids originating somewhere in the >universe does not seem all that negligible if you take that into account, >even with questionable calculation methods used (I saw very different >figures from some Extraterrestrial Communication Congress). How many planets are known to exist beyond our solar system? Have they been discovered or are they just assumed to exists because there are a lot of stars out there and the universe is so big? I honestly don't know. Can anyone give me a reference? >The original question is similar to "what's the probability of Bob Brown >being born at that exactly location?". Negligible, no doubt. But,... Hardly so. Bob Brown is a particular individual, whereas any of the right amino acid molecules will do. Also the location of the molecules' genesis does not matter. Also since the birth of human individuals is an established process we can, at least, expect it to happen--and we know it happens all the time. The same cannot be said of abiogenesis. If it ever occurred it must have established itself as a process. -- Paul Dubuc {cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbscc!pmd The true light that enlightens every one was coming into the world... (John 1:9)