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To: ArGee
"What you say is true, but it isn't science, it's faith."

Well, when I was a kid and mixed odd chemicals, added energy in various forms, and waited to see what happened, something strange would happen pretty frequently. We had to evacuate the house once. I didn't do that one again. That's science.

147 posted on 05/30/2002 12:47:10 PM PDT by OBAFGKM
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To: OBAFGKM
Well, when I was a kid and mixed odd chemicals, added energy in various forms, and waited to see what happened, something strange would happen pretty frequently. We had to evacuate the house once. I didn't do that one again. That's science.

Yes, I did that too when I was young. I was given a chemistry set for Christmas in order to save whatever was in any container in the house. I was banished from the house on Christmas day. Hydrogen sulfide is easy to make. But the mystery of what would happen was due to the ignorance of the rules involved. Chemistry is not done that way as a science. What you have described is closer to Alchemy.

158 posted on 05/30/2002 12:57:49 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: OBAFGKM
Well, when I was a kid and mixed odd chemicals, added energy in various forms, and waited to see what happened, something strange would happen pretty frequently. We had to evacuate the house once. I didn't do that one again. That's science.

Right. And when you do another one and the result is a polypeptide chain of amino acids capable of reproducing itself when floating in a sea of other polypeptide chains of amino acids, none of which existed until you waited to see what happens, the idea of abiogenesis will be science.

Until then, it's faith.

Shalom.

163 posted on 05/30/2002 1:04:59 PM PDT by ArGee
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To: OBAFGKM
That's science.

Oh, I forgot. Don't select the chemicals with your eyes open. Use a blindfold.

Shalom.

165 posted on 05/30/2002 1:05:42 PM PDT by ArGee
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