peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (08/16/85)
What does creationism say (er, I mean what do creationists say: creationism
doesn't "say" anythings since it hasn't a mouth) about life on other planets?
Mars, for example?
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Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf)
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MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) (08/23/85)
>What does creationism say (er, I mean what do creationists say: creationism >doesn't "say" anythings since it hasn't a mouth) about life on other planets? >Mars, for example? >-- > Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) I suspect most creationists would say that, if there is life on other planets, it was created there in the same manner that it was here. What do evolutionists say about life on other planets? (If it evolved there, it evolved in the same manner that it did here.) Charli
jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) (08/24/85)
> I suspect most creationists would say that, if there is life on > other planets, it was created there in the same manner that it was > here. > > What do evolutionists say about life on other planets? (If it > evolved there, it evolved in the same manner that it did here.) > > Charli If life, which is identical to the life found on earth, would be found in another planet, it would destroy the foundation of evolution theory and possibly all of science. Since the universe is finite, the probability of forming identical life elsewhere can be taken to be zero or very close to it. When dealing with the probability of formation of life, we have to distinguish between the probability of the formation of life and the probability of the formation of a specific life (most creationists do not seem to understand or ignore this distinction). It is quite clear that the formation of a specific life forms is very small. On the other hand, the formation of any life forms may not be a rare event given the age and the size of the universe. In this context, the formation of specific life forms is viewed as one of many possible outcomes. -- Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois, Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho
jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) (08/24/85)
In a previous posting, I stated: > If life, which is identical to the life found on earth, would be found > in another planet, it would destroy the foundation of evolution theory > and possibly of all of science. Even if evolution would be proved to wrong, this would not prove that creationism is right. It would still be necessary to demonstrate that creationism or any other theory can acount for the observation. What we could say is that we don't know. -- Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois, Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho
charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) (08/26/85)
>> me > Yosi Hoshen >> I suspect most creationists would say that, if there is life on >> other planets, it was created there in the same manner that it was >> here. >> >> What do evolutionists say about life on other planets? (If it >> evolved there, it evolved in the same manner that it did here.) >> > >If life, which is identical to the life found on earth, would be found >in another planet, it would destroy the foundation of evolution theory >and possibly all of science. Since the universe is finite, the probability >of forming identical life elsewhere can be taken to be zero or very >close to it. Granted. I did not understand that the original poster meant life identical to that found on earth. I was presuming that he meant "life in any form." charli
tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) (08/27/85)
>> I suspect most creationists would say that, if there is life on >> other planets, it was created there in the same manner that it was >> here. >> >> What do evolutionists say about life on other planets? (If it >> evolved there, it evolved in the same manner that it did here.) >> > >If life, which is identical to the life found on earth, would be found >in another planet, it would destroy the foundation of evolution theory >and possibly all of science. Since the universe is finite, the probability >of forming identical life elsewhere can be taken to be zero or very >close to it. Read it again... He said evolved in a similar manner, not evolved into identical species. We're talking about method here. Certainly there would be different forces of natural selection at work... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it." --Whitehead Steve Tynor Georgia Instutute of Technology ...{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-sally} !gatech!gitpyr!tynor -- Steve Tynor Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!tynor