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To: Right Wing Professor
Because you can't calculate a priori probabilities for a process without specifying mechanism in detail.

The probabiliites being calculated aren't a priori. Amino acids exist. What are the odds of them forming a protein at random? Dembski wrote a long paper addressing your concern. You can find bits and pieces of it here

More to the point, if the idea that life is designed is a bad one, why is the alternative -- that it occurred by chance -- a good one?

712 posted on 08/19/2005 6:21:00 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
What are the odds of them forming a protein at random?

No one claims they formed a protein at random.

Dembski wrote a long paper addressing your concern.

Dembski's a charlatan.

What are the odds that all the water molecules could line themselves up exactly in the right direction to form an ice crystal?

More to the point, if the idea that life is designed is a bad one, why is the alternative -- that it occurred by chance -- a good one?

No one argues life formed by chance.

715 posted on 08/19/2005 6:25:11 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory - John Marburger, science advisor to George W. Bush)
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