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To: pcl
Cut to the chase. Are you asserting that the fact that life composed of carbon chains mirroring ours is impossible? Not nearly impossible, or close to impossible, must just plain impossible?

Given a set of conditions with an outcome favorable to L, even with a small advantage, it would eventually rule out R. So, I think it's very possible that ancient conditions were such that both L and R existed, but that one gained an advantage, not by pure chance, but because conditions favored one over the other. Conditions elsewhere in the universe may well tip the advantage to the mirror compounds.

214 posted on 12/19/2001 8:06:29 PM PST by Nebullis
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To: Nebullis
not by pure chance, but because conditions favored one over the other.

The fact that conditions favored one over the other..

Was that not determined by chance?

215 posted on 12/19/2001 8:46:37 PM PST by pcl
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