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   From: penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com   
      
   What's so funny about peace, love and HeatWave   
    posting the following on Sat, 12 Aug 2006   
   21:28:23 GMT iin alt.atheism?   
      
   >If there was no Creator, then life must have started spontaneously by   
   >chance.  Do you deny this? or is it another straw man. For life to have   
   >come about, somehow the right chemicals would have had to come together   
   >in the right quantities, under the right temperature and pressure and   
   >other controlling factors, and all would have had to be maintained for   
   >the correct length of time. Furthermore, for life to have begun and been   
   >sustained on earth, these chance events would have had to be repeated   
   >thousands of times. But how likely is it for even one such event to take   
   >place?   
      
   In billions of gallons of water over a period of a billion years?  I   
   have a nearly-full can of beer in front of me. Inside that can are a   
   few billion molecues. Water, alcohol, carbon-dioxide, various other   
   things.  All bumping into each other constantly.  Now beer is pretty   
   stable (except for the CO2 outgassing) but the situation around   
   deep-sea vents or in tidal flats are not.  There's a lot of energy   
   incoming, and most importantly, time.   
      
   We've done experiments that reproduced the environment of the early   
   Earth. In those experiments, amino acids formed spontaniously within   
   *hours.*  Not life, admittedly, but the most basic building blocks of   
   life forming quickly under the right conditions.  How big a stretch is   
   it to proteins and then replicating proteins?  Remember, we have over   
   a billion years to play with!   
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   Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5   
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   "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the   
   source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a   
   stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as   
   good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)