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Harvard to Prove Life Began Without 'Major Grant'
ScrappleFace ^ | 8/15/2005 | Scott Ott

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.


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To: LiteKeeper

doing a little googling i've come up with the interpretation of "Young Earth Creationist, enemy siting report"... but i still don't know what you mean.


21 posted on 08/16/2005 9:34:52 PM PDT by kpp_kpp
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To: kpp_kpp
I am a retired Army Chaplain (ret 1995); VietNam vet - 1967-1969 (Field Artillery Officer in those days)

I am currently teaching a Comparative Worldview (biblical vs humanist) class in the evenings at the Air Force Academy Prep School, Colorado Springs. Fourth year at Air Force Academy. Taught same class at the West Point Prep school for five years.

I also have the privilege of teaching several classes in Colorado Springs to high school, college, and adults on comparative worldviews (biblical vs secular). As I read the various threads, some impress me as good for illustrating different worldviews. So, using some Army terminology, I mark threads as

When I get home, I download these reports to a database for future class use.

Hope that helps

22 posted on 08/16/2005 9:36:13 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (The radical secularization of America is happening)
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