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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
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Subject: Re: creation/evolution - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 18:05:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 15 18:05:22 1984
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From Ray Miller:

	     In a reply to Paul Dubuc, Byron Howes' claim that abiogene-
	sis and evolution "are not necessarily linked" won't hold water. 
	To appeal to such things as life coming from space, like Sir Fred
	Hoyle does in "Evolution from Space", doesn't solve the problem;
	it sweeps it under the rug.  The followup question then is: where
	did *that* life come from?  Ultimately, you must appeal to
	spontaneous generation.

The "creationist" alternative seems to be that life was brought into
being by a supernatural being, which also begs the question.  How did
that supernatural being come into existance--spontaneous generation?

The theory of evolution is strictly speaking concerned with the evo-
lution of various species from some original form of life.  Therefore
even if you could prove that life on earth was originally brought into
existance by some outside intelligence you would not have disproved
the theory of evolution per se.
					Kenneth Almquist