Posted on 08/15/2005 4:55:58 PM PDT by kpp_kpp
(2005-08-15) -- A new multi-million dollar Harvard University effort to study the origins of life in the universe seeks to prove that life did not begin with "a major grant" from an intelligent source, but rather sprang up spontaneously and entirely without purpose.
The university will fund the research with $1 million per year in a number of multi-million dollar facilities, employing some of the best minds in science to establish that the complexity of life started with no plan, no design, no forethought and no intelligent creative agent.
"Harvard University has proven over the years that the more complex something is, the less likely you are to find any intelligence behind it," said an unnamed university spokesman. "In fact, this 'origins of life' project started out as an accidental ink spill on paper, and it just developed from there."
The university said the study should take several million years to complete and is unlikely to produce any meaningful result.
Outstanding piece of satire! Salute!
Satire, maybe - but wouldn't surprise me a bit if it were true!
They can have the final report typed up by an infinite number of monkeys.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began.
The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from Harvard over the next few years. The project begins with an admission that some mysteries about life's origins cannot be explained.
"My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention," said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard.
If Professor Liu is in charge of the study, I suggest that Harvard save their millions and just tell Liu to write his final report.
Actually it is true, at least as far as the study goes. Check my #5.
The Globe article is at:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/15/harvard_to_investigate_origins_of_life?mode=PF
In a related story, theologians at Oral Robert's Univeristy have begun work to understand how God sprang up spontaneously and entirely without purpose.
after the origin of life is determined i'm looking forward to the explanation of the origin of time, space, and matter.
the origin of life (dna programmed proteins and chemicals) should be relatively simple.
Nothing is easier to demonstrate - just look at the US tax code as a good example of a thing which has acquired a life of its own (and is therefore a form of life - metalife, even) and whatever could be found behind it is not intelligence - just malice and stupidity. Q.E.D.
This must refer to their graduates.....nuanced complexity without intelligence....
Man cannot prove or disprove the existence of ---.
Being all-powerful, --- can be nonexistant or powerless.
--- can create a stone so large that --- cannot lift it and then lift it.
Hey. Who is this Q.E.D. fella I read folks quoting so often?
Q. E. D. = Quod Erat Demonstrandum = What was required to demonstrate. Standard phrase in scholastic Latin used in the ages past at the end of logical proofs and demonstrations.
I'm not sure! Harvard must know that, from the very outset, minorities were unfairly treated!
Well they've already proved something.
To waste a million dollars a year to prove something they have already admitted they can't, proves there is no intelligent design or the life from which it emanates, present in the faculty or administrators at Harvard U.
I see it is true now - and I'm not surprised.
YEC SPOTREP
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