[Tribune7]

Don't want to be redundent but here's the answer to the TalkOrigin stuff on Borel's law and evil creationist types misusing statistics.

same site as in 582

[BMCDA]

Well, he may show why under certain circumstances the formation of some organic molecules may be difficult and very unlikely. That's OK but with this he doesn't show that abiogenesis is strictly impossible since neither he nor those who think abiogenesis happened know the conditions under which the first life came into existence and neither the exact pathway it used.

So although we may never know the exact conditions under which abiogenesis occurred we can nonetheless come up with scenarios that show it is possible. But even if we find such a scenario it doesn't mean that it actually happend that way. Afterall it may have taken an other pathway but at least it would have been demonstrated that it is not chemically impossible. Of course it may require a chain of very unlikely events but this doesn't mean that it is impossible or that it needs a very long time to happen. An event with low probability may occur in the next five minutes or it may take ten gazillion years until it happens.