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To: GSHastings
... Even the simplest form of life is not just extremely complex. It is UNIMAGINEABLY complex. That is a simple fact.

There was a guy named Emil Chargaff who as an elder statesman of biology when Crick and Watson were young Turks on the make. Chargaff was a proponent of the "unimagineably complex" concept, and held Crick and Watson in contempt for their naive belief that they could make progress by making tinker-toy models. He called them "pitch men" because the were always talking about the pitch of the DNA helix.

Then when the structure of DNA was discovered, it was said it would take 50 years to decipher the code, and it happened in less than 10 years. Here we are after 50 years and the human genome is laid out before you on the internet, and you're still stuck on "UNIMAGINEABLY complex".

93 posted on 09/29/2005 9:08:57 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
Here we are after 50 years and the human genome is laid out before you on the internet, and you're still stuck on "UNIMAGINEABLY complex".

Poo Poo. There. I've just poo poo'd your argument. You're still stuck on counting noses and toes.

I've said it elsewhere on this thread, but I'll repeat it.

Evolution, and it's siamese twin abiogenesis, believe that life is so simple that pond scum was able to come up with it about 4 billion years ago (without the benefit of PBS).

So, let's get on with the proof that we are smarter than pond scum. Let's whip up a little synthetic life, shall we? How HARD can it be, for crying out loud?

99 posted on 09/29/2005 9:18:58 PM PDT by GSHastings
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