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Is Evolution Intellectually Viable?

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mark24
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11-05-2002 10:54 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Ahmad
11-05-2002 8:50 AM

Ahmad,
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I thought you were talking about evolution, but judging from your actual post you are talking about abiogenesis. Make your mind up!
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Mark
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11-09-2002 3:56 PM 		Reply to: Message 72 by Ahmad
11-09-2002 3:42 PM

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Originally posted by Ahmad:
"The likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution.
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No, it isn't. The origins of life, & the subsequent variation (evolution) are different things entirely. Secondly, 10^40,000 : 1 is the odds of what occurring, EXACTLY? I predict a strawman!
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