To: TChris
" Statisticians have calculated the necessary probabilities for life to have evolved to this point, and they don't fit anywhere near the timeframes accepted as the age of the universe."
And they had to pull the *calculations* out of their posteriors because it isn't POSSIBLE to make such calculations without knowing what the processes they claim to represent are.
160 posted on
01/26/2006 3:07:19 PM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
And they had to pull the *calculations* out of their posteriors because it isn't POSSIBLE to make such calculations without knowing what the processes they claim to represent are. They based them on the observed rate of mutation in successive generations of cells, if I remember correctly. That is the basis of evolution, is it not?
In any event, I must be getting home now. Thanks to all for an invigorating debate! :-)
168 posted on
01/26/2006 3:12:01 PM PST by
TChris
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