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To: js1138

This is very true; it's not random chance, it's governed by the laws of chemistry, and when you apply those, you find out the formation isn't just highly improbable, it's improbable to the point of being impossible. Behe goes into some of the chemistry in his book Darwin's Black Box.

Just like Sodium and Chlorine will always form ordered crystals when evaporated from solution, there are some chemical reactions that will NOT occur no matter how much time you give them. Graphite turning to diamond under STP, Helium-Oxide, Lithium permanganate, Oxygen Sulfate, etc.


785 posted on 12/07/2005 1:00:46 PM PST by frgoff
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To: frgoff
...and when you apply those, you find out the formation isn't just highly improbable, it's improbable to the point of being impossible. Behe goes into some of the chemistry in his book Darwin's Black Box.

Devastating if it were true, but it isn't. Among other problems, you can't calculate the probability of a long series of events without knowing the steps in the series. Behe has just extended the god of the gaps argument to a currently unsolved problem.

Asserting that a problem cannot be solved because it has not yet been solved is the single greatest evil possible in the world, because it denies reason and imagination.

787 posted on 12/07/2005 1:08:24 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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