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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: The creation/evolution issue settled at last!
Message-ID: <3971@alice.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 16:02:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.3971
Posted: Wed Jul 10 16:02:02 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 01:56:50 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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On page 25 of the April/May 1985 issue of the Journal of
Irreproducible Results is an article that proves conclusively
that evolution is impossible.  Here is an excerpt:

	Every time I do my laundry, I lose a sock.  This
	seems to be the experience of many other people.
	Considering the number of families who do their
	laundry weekly, it is a reasonable estimate that
	as much as 2 million socks are lost every week.
	If the earth is 4.6 billion years old as the
	evolutionists claim, and if all the socks now
	existing had evolved from pre-existing socks, and
	if the rate of sock disappearance has remained
	constant, than the sock population at the earth's
	formation would be 4.6e17 more than it is now.
	Estimating the earth's curface area as 5e18
	square centimeters, and the area taken up by the
	average sock as 100 square centimeters, we see that
	there should be enough socks to form a layer
	10 socks high completely surrounding the earth.
	This layer would have blocked out almost all the
	sun's light, preventing the formation of amino
	acids in the primordial soup.  Thus the evolutionist
	account of the origin of life is refuted.

Since this issue is now settled, I propose that this
newsgroup be disbanded.