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Subject: Re: Re: The missing step -- self-reproducing organisms
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> Indeed, it is an extremely complex thing.  However, the probability of 
> complex living organisms evolving ( coming into existence ) is actually very
> high, say 1, since it has occured, for whatever reason.
> 
> -- 
> Carter Bullard

I don't know what to say exactly to this statement. Am I missing some
logic link or can you really state the probability of something coming
into existence by a certain method soley on the fact it is in existence?

I guess I can now advance my pet theory about the grand canyon coming into
existence by a prehistoric giant urinating on arizona because, indeed, the
grand canyon exists.

			Mike Johnston