Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!burl!hou3c!ka From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: creation/evolution - (nf) Message-ID: <280@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 18:05:22 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.280 Posted: Wed Feb 15 18:05:22 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Feb-84 05:45:04 EST References: <5567@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 20 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