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To: carumba

> is not a good argument for abiogenisis.

The polio case, yes. Going from chemistry to a relatively complex virus in one step is more than a hell of a stretch for the natural world. But the poitn was that it showed that no magic or "life force" or "breath of God" was needed to turn glop into life

> The more complexity, the less likely it is that it would be a spontaneous thing.

Yes, that's why I also mentioend the Urey and Fox experiments, whech went from basic chemicals (methane, CO2 and whatnot) and produced *argueably* protoife without the scientists going in and meddlign on the molecular/genetic level. They showed the life could fairly easily form of it's own accord, depnding of course on what you considered the threshold for "alive."


552 posted on 01/21/2005 6:17:58 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: orionblamblam
I believe we can agree that we share skepticism about the origins of life stories. I will keep an open mind and maybe someday the right paradigm will be trotted out and it will all make sense and the questions we both have will have elegant answers.
560 posted on 01/21/2005 11:49:00 PM PST by carumba
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