Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark 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 Lines: 27 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.