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.