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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 13)
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 20:13:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 20:13:21 1985
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>        25.  If the earth, early in its alleged evolution,  HAD  OXYGEN
>             in  its  atmosphere,  the  chemicals needed for life would
>             have been removed by oxidation. But if there had  been  NO
>             OXYGEN,  then  there would have been no ozone in the upper
>             atmosphere. Without  this  ozone  life  would  be  quickly
>             destroyed  by  the  sun's ultraviolet radiation [a,b]. The
>             only way for both ozone and life to be here is for both to
>             come   into  existence  simultaneously.  In  other  words,
>             Creation!

Who says uv rays will destroy all life? That uv rays can get everywhere
to do their nasty work?

It cracks me up to see a creationist present this argument since it
is well known that uv rays can cause skin cancers ...  illnesses
where mutated cells reproduce abnormally. So the dubious mechanism
for killing life turns out to be that for increasing its variety!

Padraig Houlahan.

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