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From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Another shot at creationism.
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 11:42:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 11:42:40 1985
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>> I suspect most creationists would say that, if there is life on
>> other planets, it was created there in the same manner that it was
>> here.
>> 
>> What do evolutionists say about life on other planets?  (If it
>> evolved there, it evolved in the same manner that it did here.)
>> 
>
>If life, which is identical to the life found on earth, would be found
>in another planet, it would destroy the foundation of evolution theory
>and possibly all of science.  Since the universe is finite, the probability 
>of forming identical life elsewhere can be taken to be zero or very
>close to it.  

Read it again...  He said evolved in a similar manner, not evolved into 
identical species.  We're talking about method here.  Certainly there would be
different forces of natural selection at work...

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Instutute of Technology

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