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"James Ascher" |
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14 Aug 2005 01:46:22 PM |
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Harvard initiative: Origins of life |
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/14/project_on_the_origins_of_life_launched?mode=PF
Very interesting effort.
James
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| User: "Dale" |
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| Title: Re: Harvard initiative: Origins of life |
14 Aug 2005 02:00:16 PM |
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"James Ascher" <jwa1968@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:2kMLe.5100$Wi6.303@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/14/project_on_the_origins_of_life_launched?mode=PF
Very interesting effort.
From the article:
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Szostak recalled that he had been surprised to see his own research, which
he interprets as progress in understanding life's origins, on religious
websites, which cite the work as evidence of how difficult it would be to
create life without a designer -- because, Szostak said, ''not even Harvard
scientists can do it."
Michael Behe, a biologist at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and one of
the leading proponents of intelligent design, said he was glad that Harvard
was going to try to address the issue.
''If, as I suspect will happen," Behe said, ''they fail to find a plausible
answer without invoking intelligence, then maybe science will be less
hostile to folks who see intelligent direction in the history of life," he
said.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Harvard initiative: Origins of life |
14 Aug 2005 06:56:02 PM |
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In article <4xMLe.176$hF1.107@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
"Dale" <dmgreer@nspm.airmail.net> wrote:
"James Ascher" <jwa1968@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:2kMLe.5100$Wi6.303@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/14/project_on_the
_origins_of_life_launched?mode=PF
Very interesting effort.
From the article:
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Szostak recalled that he had been surprised to see his own research, which
he interprets as progress in understanding life's origins, on religious
websites, which cite the work as evidence of how difficult it would be to
create life without a designer -- because, Szostak said, ''not even Harvard
scientists can do it."
Michael Behe, a biologist at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and one of
the leading proponents of intelligent design, said he was glad that Harvard
was going to try to address the issue.
''If, as I suspect will happen," Behe said, ''they fail to find a plausible
answer without invoking intelligence, then maybe science will be less
hostile to folks who see intelligent direction in the history of life," he
said.
---
Typical argument from ignorance from the ID/creationist side. "We don't
know at this moment how it came about so therefore the designer/god did
it. "
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Harvard initiative: Origins of life |
14 Aug 2005 06:50:59 PM |
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In article <2kMLe.5100$Wi6.303@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
James Ascher <jwa1968@earthlink.net> wrote:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/14/project_on_the
_origins_of_life_launched?mode=PF
Very interesting effort.
James
Interesting indeed. I'll have to keep an eye on this.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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