Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece From: preece@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: The Probability of Life from Non-lif - (nf) Message-ID: <5349@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 23:14:08 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5349 Posted: Fri Feb 3 23:14:08 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 05:39:12 EST Lines: 13 #R:cbscc:-158200:uicsl:7500043:000:433 uicsl!preece Feb 3 10:59:00 1984 I find it much easier to believe that under conditions we can only speculate about life did occur, regardless of the probabilities, than to believe that there is a conscious creator of the universe. I simply believe that when we know enough we will know how life came to be. We haven't known very much for very long; it's silly to predicate probabilities on our current state of knowledge. scott preece ihnp41uiucdcs!uicsl!preece