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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Evolution vs. Creation
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Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 18:46:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 22 18:46:35 1983
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	>> Which is a more amazing feat, arranging billiard balls
	>> in an orderly pattern by hand, or strewing them randomly
	>> across the table, hitting the cue ball, and having them
	>> end up in an orderly pattern?

Actually, if you're referring to an "omnipotent" entity, with all its
power, taking billions of years to get the pattern orderly (I might even
question whether it *is* very orderly yet!), and with such unsuccessful
experiments as dinosaurs along the way, I'd say that was pretty amazing
all right - amazingly incompetent!

Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook