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Author Topic:   Hydroplates unchallenged young earth explains Tectonics shortcomings!
JonF
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Message 198 of 209 (87919)
02-21-2004 6:38 PM
Reply to: Message 195 by simple
02-16-2004 6:27 PM


Re: and then there was none!
I won't bother with nmost of this gibberish, but ...
The commencement of life upon Earth certainly did not take place by any action of chemistry or electricity or crystalline grouping of molecules. We must pause, face to face with the mystery and miracle of the creation of living creatures.
-- First Baron William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, formulator of the second law of thermodynamics
Been reading Eminent Scientists and Thinkers Conclude...? That appears to be the only quote mine with exactly that error.
Kelvin was not the formulator of the second law of thermodynamics. It was first sketched out by Carnot and first formulated rigorously by Clausius. You sure picked a reliable site from which to copy!
Of course, Kelvin was a great physicist, but he was wrong about many things (most likely because he didn't have access to the data and tools we have today). There's no reason to suppose that his opinions on abiogenesis were valid in the late 1800's, and they are certainly invalid today.

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