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To: Southack
you might discern that the author is discussing the probability of DATA being stored, not chemicals reacting with each other

You will illuminate this, I hope. "Data" is a construct, chemicals do exist and are observed combining into more complex structures.

As Physicist has pointed out, there is no absolute way to divide chemicals into living and non-living. The more we study, the more we find chemicals shading into living things. And vice-versa.

89 posted on 03/06/2002 12:08:06 PM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
"You will illuminate this, I hope. "Data" is a construct, chemicals do exist and are observed combining into more complex structures."

Certainly, I agree. Chemicals form the very hard drive that you are using in your computer today, for instance.

But just because chemicals formed your hard drive doesn't mean that data was automatically stored on it.

How did the data get onto your hard drive? Perhaps you put some data onto your hard drive. Perhaps the manufacturer of your PC put some data on it, too. Did data self-form into useful programs on your hard drive with no intelligent intervention whatsoever? To calculate the probability / improbability of that data self-forming in the chemicals that comprise your hard drive, we can use Watson's math proof above.

Likewise, we can apply the same mathematical proof to the probability / improbability of data self-forming into other chemicals, such as in the chemicals that comprise DNA.

96 posted on 03/06/2002 12:35:47 PM PST by Southack
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