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To: Junior
Looks like the guy put forth a plausible hypothesis, and, as he is an expert in his field, I'm sure he knows a bit more about the subject than you.

You are being overly generous in the opinion of this person(from the Nature link provided by Nebullis)----

Others disagree. "It's quite impossible that it could be right," says evolutionary biologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith of the University of Oxford, UK. Bacteria and archaebacteria have got hundreds of genes in common, he says. They share other features, such as the way that they insert proteins into their membranes.

Plausible and impossible are, shall we say, discordant.

36 posted on 12/04/2002 2:33:15 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
Your quote doesn't make your point. It appears the guy quoted is agreeing with me.
37 posted on 12/04/2002 2:36:27 PM PST by Junior
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To: AndrewC; Junior
Plausible and impossible are, shall we say, discordant.

Cntxt is yr frnd.

Life escaped the rocks when it evolved a cell wall, say Martin and Russell. Controversially, they argue that the two main kingdoms of primitive life, the bacteria and the archaebacteria, have such different cell walls that they must have arisen twice.

Others disagree. "It's quite impossible that it could be right," says evolutionary biologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith of the University of Oxford, UK. Bacteria and archaebacteria have got hundreds of genes in common, he says. They share other features, such as the way that they insert proteins into their membranes.

Sounds to me like he disagrees with the idea that bacteria and archaebacteria arose independently, rather than saying that the whole thing is "impossible". No?

47 posted on 12/04/2002 3:28:46 PM PST by general_re
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