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To: Ichneumon
"Posted by Ichneumon to cookcounty On News/Activism 05/03/2003 10:52 PM PDT #415 of 584 Why only once? Why not twice? Why not 1,000X? Why not a trillion times? Because any budding attempts to repeat the process would be eaten by the evolved results of the *first* success. Often"? Only if it were "easy" to occur.

How have you determined with such precision how "easy" (or difficult ) it was to occur?

585 posted on 05/04/2003 8:19:27 PM PDT by cookcounty
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To: cookcounty
How have you determined with such precision how "easy" (or difficult ) it was to occur?

I haven't. (Where on earth did you get the impression I said any such thing?)

I merely pointed out that *you* were the one who made an unsupported presumption about its apparent ease when you wrote: "Inded, it goes against all rationality to suggest that it did not happen often." This implies that you not only believed it was "easy" enough to "happen often", but that you were so sure of your estimation that, you say, it "goes against all rationality" to even consider otherwise.

*You* made a claim about it being that easy, *you* support it.

All I did was to say in effect, "that ain't necessarily the case, you're presuming it *was*necessarily easy".

592 posted on 05/04/2003 10:48:20 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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