[meteorite-list] THE ODDS OF LIFE

From: Dawn & Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 20 20:38:28 2005
Message-ID: <028301c58d8c$70397a00$6502a8c0_at_GerryLaptop>

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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] THE ODDS OF LIFE


> Sterling W. wrote:
>
> >The key has to be that the creation of life was NOT a random
> >process. For every molecule that fits a template, millions did not.
> >That's a selective mechanism, not a random one. If you allow a strong
> >selective effect at every step instead of random chance, it's done in
> >short order, IF there is a preferred pathway.
>
> Hola Sterling, The answer you seek has been mostly written...
>
> THE QUESTION will just move to become, ok, we have proof of concept once,
> twice, whatever. Now where's the extraterrestrial beef? Those bags of
wierd
> enzymes are one thing, but THE QUESTION will always has been, can they
> organize, intercommunicate and form conscious beings with souls? And the
> closedminded will say - only on Earth. The visionaries will say - In the
name of
> Copernicus, get over it! And some will be burned at the stake by the
experts of
> their day.
>
> Saludos, Doug
>
> Is there a fourth, maybe a fifth, even countless. yet unimagined
alternatives just beyond our grasp. I so enjoy yours, Sterling's, Marc's and
the other List's members who are willing to allow our avocation to catapult
our imagination beyond the confines of the "Known" all the while, paying
homage to the Science which allows us to leap into the as yet unfathomable.
Isn't the universe an incredible melieu creating our minds and imaginations
to take us toward its expanding limits.
Jerry
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