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"PeteM" |
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05 Oct 2003 06:22:10 AM |
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Re: Wald on spontaneous generation |
Kevin D. Quitt <Kevin@Quitt.net> averred
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC), david ford
<dford3@gl.umbc.edu> wrote:
1) life arose from a supernatural entity's active creation, and
2) life arose and arises from non-life.[45]
"There is no third position."[46]
False on the face of it. The third position is that life will arise when
conditions are favorable and enough time elapses. There is no need to require
that life continue to be continuously created.
Another possibility is that life has always existed somewhere in the
universe, and spread to Earth by space travel.
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PeteM
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| User: "Robin Levett" |
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| Title: Re: Wald on spontaneous generation |
05 Oct 2003 09:53:23 AM |
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"PeteM" <postmaster@torquemada.net> wrote in message
news:KmNWYJALBAg$Ewno@torquemada.net...
Kevin D. Quitt <Kevin@Quitt.net> averred
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC), david ford
<dford3@gl.umbc.edu> wrote:
1) life arose from a supernatural entity's active
creation, and
2) life arose and arises from non-life.[45]
"There is no third position."[46]
False on the face of it. The third position is that life
will arise when
conditions are favorable and enough time elapses. There
is no need to require
that life continue to be continuously created.
Another possibility is that life has always existed
somewhere in the
universe, and spread to Earth by space travel.
Difficult one that (for certain values of "life" anyway).
You're going to have to overturn virtually all cosmology and
a great deal of astronomy of the last 35-40 years, and
explain away a whole heap of observational evidence, to make
that one fly; steady state theory has been quite thoroughly
disconfirmed.
--
I don't trust camels - or anyone else that can go for a week
without a drink.
(Use - deleting big blue -
for email)
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| User: "AC" |
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| Title: Re: Wald on spontaneous generation |
05 Oct 2003 01:45:40 PM |
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:22:10 +0000 (UTC),
PeteM <postmaster@torquemada.net> wrote:
Kevin D. Quitt <Kevin@Quitt.net> averred
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC), david ford
<dford3@gl.umbc.edu> wrote:
1) life arose from a supernatural entity's active creation, and
2) life arose and arises from non-life.[45]
"There is no third position."[46]
False on the face of it. The third position is that life will arise when
conditions are favorable and enough time elapses. There is no need to require
that life continue to be continuously created.
Another possibility is that life has always existed somewhere in the
universe, and spread to Earth by space travel.
And when someone produces evidence for that possibility, then it will be
considered. Until then, however...
--
Aaron Clausen
taocow@alberni.net
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| User: "Woden" |
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| Title: Re: Wald on spontaneous generation |
05 Oct 2003 02:48:23 PM |
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PeteM <postmaster@torquemada.net> wrote in
news:KmNWYJALBAg$Ewno@torquemada.net:
Kevin D. Quitt <Kevin@Quitt.net> averred
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC), david ford
<dford3@gl.umbc.edu> wrote:
1) life arose from a supernatural entity's active creation, and
2) life arose and arises from non-life.[45]
"There is no third position."[46]
False on the face of it. The third position is that life will arise
when conditions are favorable and enough time elapses. There is no
need to require that life continue to be continuously created.
Another possibility is that life has always existed somewhere in the
universe, and spread to Earth by space travel.
And where did this space traveling life come from originally? Was it
created or arose from natural processes?
--
Woden
"religion is a socio-political institution for the control of
people's thoughts, lives, and actions; based on
ancient myths and superstitions perpetrated through
generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."
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