From: johnsd2@jec322.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson)
Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
Reply-To: johnsd2@jec322.its.rpi.edu.its1
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:10:31 GMT

In article N43HuB3w165w@kalki33, kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us () writes:
>johnsd2@vccsouth16.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
>
>> >Sincerely,
>> >Kalki "maggots from meat, maggots from meat" Dasa
>> 
>> I think its cute that you stick comments in your name, but
>> I dont see how this one is relevent, to, well, anything.
>
>In the old days people saw maggots in meat and they thought that the
>meat was the source of the maggots, or that the maggots were
>spontaneously generating from the meat. Finally some far-seeing person
>noticed that flies were visiting the meat before the maggots appeared,
>so after some experiments, it was finally realized that the meat was
>incapable of producing maggots. The maggot-eggs were deposited in the
>meat by flies.

Yeah, Im familiar with the story. Aint science great?

>Nowadays, there are certain persons (symbol=abiogeneticists) who still
>believe that the meat (symbol=primordial soup) is producing the maggots
>(symbol=living organisms). But there are also, as in the past, some
>far-seeing persons (symbol=creationists) who notice that maggots never
>appear without a prior visitation by flies (symbol=soul/other life).
>
>Life comes from life! Get it?

That certainly seems to be true. But the evidence suggests (rather
strongly) that once upon a time there was no life. But there is life
now. So life must have come from something that is not alive, or else
it would not be here now.

Incidentally, I notice you say "sould/other life"; do you mean
to propose that souls existed before life did, and life came
from souls? If so, you've a long way to go, as you haven't
even demonstrated the existance of souls. But at least you dont
have to worry about the preceeding paragraph. Nonetheless,
that kind of reasoning is what leads people to believe that abiogenesis
must have happened sometime in the past- even if it was caused by
some supernatural force, it still must have happened.

>Sincerely,
>Kalki "Uh th th, uh th th, uh th th, uhhhh, that's all, folks!" Dasa

Ya know, I never saw anyway spell that before.

>
>       -------------------------------------------------------
>      |  Don't forget to chant:   Hare Krishna Hare Krishna   |
>      |                           Krishna Krishna Hare Hare   |
>      |                           Hare Rama Hare Rama         |
>      |                           Rama Rama Hare Hare         |
>      |                                                       |
>      |   Kalki's Infoline BBS Aiken, South Carolina, USA     |
>      |        (kalki33!kalki@lakes.trenton.sc.us)            |
>       -------------------------------------------------------

Ok! Here:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Now will you STOP ASKING ME TO CHANT THAT! :)


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