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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: If You've Got the Time...
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 08:34:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 08:34:07 1984
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	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.