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To: donh
Maybe there are lots of universes, and ours happens to be one whose laws allow for life.

This is compelling evidence? This?

There is no common sense involved in making up a story about how things happened, and persistently making the claim that that's how it must have been…

59 posted on 04/04/2002 12:50:42 PM PST by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
Maybe there are lots of universes, and ours happens to be one whose laws allow for life.

This is compelling evidence? This?

You seem to have turned missing the point into a high art form. The anthropic argument you have presented is etherial fluff which in no manner competes with evolutionary theory in explaining what we want to understand about the fossils we see around us, even if it turns out to be true--it is not even on the same playing field. Just as the argument about windstorms not whopping up 707's doesn't preclude life evolving from natural causes, because, like the other argument, it is not hung upon evidence about which I can make calculations and draw conclusions. It is your opinion that life is unlikely, and that God created the heavens and earth. You are entitled to your opinion--and you may even be right, but trying to stack that up against what working micro-biologists believe and operate from is like trying to field a sparrow against a cannon.

62 posted on 04/04/2002 12:59:07 PM PST by donh
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