On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Todd Moody wrote: > > Indeed. Nobody would deny that. Still, it is perfectly > reasonable to say that *given what we know now*, the spontaneous > emergence of self-replicating systems from prebiotic soup in the > probable windows of time available is vanishingly small. > Disagree. If the margin of error exceeds the resolution of the calculation by many orders of magnitude, then the statement simply becomes meaningless. > Sure, and if you or anyone else has a theory of how fractal > geometry can get self-replicating proto-cells out of a random > soup of amino acids and nucleic acids, then that would count > against the Intelligent Design theory. The mere conjecture, > however, than someday someone might develop such a theory > doesn't. > Disappointed. I made no conjecture. Also, I didn't offer fractal geometry as a solution to this problem, I simply used it as an example to demonstrate that a complex system needn't be an unlikely event. Andy.