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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Scientific Case for Creation: (Part 13)
Message-ID: <448@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-May-85 16:06:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 16:06:21 1985
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In article <350@iham1.UUCP> rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk) writes:
>
>    C.  NEW RESEARCH SHOWS THAT  THE  REQUIREMENTS  FOR  LIFE  ARE  SO
>        COMPLEX  THAT CHANCE AND EVEN BILLIONS OF YEARS CANNOT EXPLAIN
>        IT.
>
>       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!
>
>            a)  Duane T. Gish, SPECULATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS RELATED TO
>                THEORIES   ON   THE  ORIGIN  OF  LIFE,  ICR  Technical
>                Monograph No.1 (El Cajon, CA:  Institute for  Creation
>                Research, 1972).

	This contradicts the experimental results I am familiar with.
The Urey experiments and the subsequent embelishments of it in fact
show that UV *promotes* the formation of organic compounds. So in
fact ozone is not in any way necessary for life. Dr. Gish simply does
not know what he is talking about here, or more likely he has chosen
to ignore a large body of research which contradicts his premises.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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