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To: DLL who wrote (16615)	6/8/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Gregory D. John	Respond to of 39621

Donald, I've been searching around this web site: talkorigins.org and I think I've found a possible answer to you question: "These two scientists concluded that if life cannot spontaneously begin, it must have a creator. Hoyle, once an atheist, became a believer in God. What other logical conclusion could he have come to?" Two paragraphs from this web site which directly address this are: "For example, consider the calculation by astronomer Fred Hoyle, often referred to by creationists, that the odds against DNA assembling by chance are 10^40,000 to one (Hoyle, 1981). This is true, but highly misleading. DNA did not assemble purely by chance. It assembled by a combination of chance and the laws of physics." "In a calculation similar to Hoyle's, mathematician Roger Penrose has estimated that the probability of a universe with our particular set of physical properties is one part in 10^[10^123] (Penrose 1989: 343). However, neither Penrose nor anyone else can say how many of the other possible universes formed with different properties could still have lead to some form of life. If it is half, then the probability for life is fifty percent." Greg