Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Hark!, but soft... Message-ID: <497@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 16:01:54 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.497 Posted: Thu Nov 29 16:01:54 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 06:49:00 EST Distribution: net Organization: UW Primate Center Lines: 15 > The more the actual geological record is studied, the more evident > it is that life formed quickly. The obvious conclusion is that the > probability of forming life is very high, and that it doesn't take > long periods of time to do it. I have a hypothetical question. If, given that life formed quickly, the obvious conclusion is that the probability of forming life is very high, what would the obvious conclusion be if we discovered that life appeared to have formed even more quickly, say, instantaneously? -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois "Jesus Christ is not Cute." John Fahey