Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihu1m!jho From: jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Another shot at creationism. Message-ID: <640@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 10:44:27 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1m.640 Posted: Sat Aug 24 10:44:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:11:18 EDT References: <412@baylor.UUCP> <214@cylixd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25 > I suspect most creationists would say that, if there is life on > other planets, it was created there in the same manner that it was > here. > > What do evolutionists say about life on other planets? (If it > evolved there, it evolved in the same manner that it did here.) > > Charli If life, which is identical to the life found on earth, would be found in another planet, it would destroy the foundation of evolution theory and possibly all of science. Since the universe is finite, the probability of forming identical life elsewhere can be taken to be zero or very close to it. When dealing with the probability of formation of life, we have to distinguish between the probability of the formation of life and the probability of the formation of a specific life (most creationists do not seem to understand or ignore this distinction). It is quite clear that the formation of a specific life forms is very small. On the other hand, the formation of any life forms may not be a rare event given the age and the size of the universe. In this context, the formation of specific life forms is viewed as one of many possible outcomes. -- Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois, Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho