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To: Stultis
This was exactly Vade's point in response to your complaint that "no instances of the creation of even so much as a pre-biotic soup have been observed in nature".

Well maybe or maybe not, but the point I was making is that all of the pre-biotic soup thus far created (that we know of) has been done under the aegis of ID.  Furthermore, it has all been done in tightly controlled laboratory experiments, simulating postulated pre-life earth conditions that are dubious at best.
353 posted on 02/22/2002 9:58:44 AM PST by Frumious Bandersnatch
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Laboraty conditions can be used to replicate the natural world. Psychological experiments are based on this premise. Simply because the experiment is done in the laboratory, if it is done correctly, it need not imply any artificiality in the result (i.e., Intelligent Design). Otherwise, one could never experiment and have it apply to the real world.
367 posted on 02/22/2002 11:04:21 AM PST by Junior
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
but the point I was making is that all of the pre-biotic soup thus far created

No, regardless of what other points you may have made or wish to now make, the point Vade responded to was just as I quoted, your complaint that no "pre-biotic soup" has been observed "in nature". Vade was simply pointing out, in a manner that you did not happen to grasp, that even if it did form under current conditions, we would never know it as it would be "eaten" (metabolized by ubiquitous micro-organisms).

395 posted on 02/22/2002 1:12:15 PM PST by Stultis
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