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To: narby
You need to learn a bit about how science works.

Well, hell, I guess they didnt cover no science when I was a goen to colleg.

What I do understand ... math, specifically cryptography and large prime and random numbers. In fact, I hold multiple patents in computational science and cryptography. I'll believe in evolution when a million monkeys, banging on a keyboard for a million years has the possibility of duplicating War and Peace (or any other major literary work).
94 posted on 08/19/2007 1:13:48 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol
I'll believe in evolution when a million monkeys, banging on a keyboard for a million years has the possibility of duplicating War and Peace (or any other major literary work).

Typically, you've mingled the beginning of life with the process of evolution, demonstrating that you understand neither.

In the doubtful chance that you're open minded enough to pay attention to an explanation of your error, I'll explain it.

The process of evolution does not depend on how the first life came to exist. Let's say that God created the first life four billion years ago. The evidence loudly says that from that point evolution was the process the produced the various species.

It's not unlike many other scientific processes. For example the process of heat from the sun causing evaporation, followed by condensation, rain, hurricanes, etc. One could say that "God made the rain", or one could say that the "sun caused it from evaporation, etc." So what's the difference? If you believe that God has a hand in everything, then He caused the sun to shine, the water to evaporate, and the condensation to bring the rain. It's all a case of semantics.

Evolution is solid science. The beginning of life, that you bring up with the monkey's typing thing, is not solid science. We have no idea how the first life came to be, and frankly it's irrelevant. What we do know is that evolution followed that first life. That fact is backed up by geology, genetics, paleontology, and myriad other sciences.

But of course, you can't get past "monkeys typing", so you are blind to it.

105 posted on 08/19/2007 7:32:15 PM PDT by narby
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