Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: If You've Got the Time... Message-ID: <937@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 08:34:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.937 Posted: Thu Aug 2 08:34:07 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 02:20:56 EDT References: <211@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 From: greggt@ncoast.UUCP (Gregg Thompson) Message-ID: <211@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jul-84 20:57:29 EDT It is interesting to see how we have disproved abiogenis (sp) or spontanious generation and yet people still beleive that the world and *MAN* all started from some particles that were floating around in an infinite amount of space! Comments please... -- You're misinterpreting the results. What was shown was that in *reasonably short* time frames, *known species* would not show up spontaneously. To extend that result to apply over many orders of magnitude is quite a leap of faith (so to speak). Let me explain by analogy. Einstein showed that Newton's laws of motion were wrong. But until you start dealing with relativistic velocities and masses, they do quite well, yielding results that are accurate to within the normal error of measurement. In a different universe of discourse, though, you can't depend on Newton.