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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (14377)	6/13/2007 8:35:15 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

I guess you're asking that in reference to The abiogenesis of life is either impossible (my opinion and others) or very unlikely. First off, I personally believe that life is impossible to have come into existence by chance. I base that on my self-education of the complexity of life and the many chicken-egg problems re. its origin as well as the opinion of people like Hubert Yockey and others. However, let's set that "impossible" issue aside since I know I won't be able to convince you of that. I'm just going to go for convincing you the odds against it happening by chance are very high and the occurrence of life by chance is very very rare. Scientists say that all life on earth is of common descent. The same genetic code with only slight variations in all life is one argument in favor of that. That implies life has only come into existence once in the 3.8B years life has existed on earth. Even if it originated more than one time in earths history, all but one line of life died out. If life had come into existence many many times over the last 3.8B years, its likely more than one line would have survived. So it either happened only once or a very very small number of times with only one line surviving. Furthermore if life could come into existence by chance easily and often, we'd be seeing it happening around us. At least we'd see evidence around us it had happened. So there are the arguments that life occurs very very infrequently and the odds against it happening are very very slim. I'm saying there is a stream of lotteries we've won. The origin of life is one. And its reasonable to believe the winner of a stream of lotteries is the beneficiary of a rigged game.