[meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:37:50 -0500
Message-ID: <C0CB254C107C4467B9DFCE966F2724AD_at_ATARIENGINE2>

Hi Phil, and List,

    When the Aliens do land, I'll do all
I can to promote as the chief Press Officer
for the new Earth Chamber of (Interstellar)
Commerce! Tell'em how wonderful we are.

Until then, I'm cutting you off. No more
free drinks.


Sterling K. Webb
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Subject: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns


> Sterling:
> You're kidding right?
> The Earth and it's inhabitants are mediocre? That pantheon of really
> smart guys you mentioned are mediocre? Elvis, the most perfectly
> evolved human being and the reason for the existence of the universe
> is merely mediocre? So you're telling me that rock n roll, modern art
> & literature, science, Thai food, 57 Chevys, Hollywood movies, are
> not magnificent? Just a byproduct of the hallowed Building Blocks.
> Nothing special about matter appearing out of nothing, organizing
> itself into living cells, then evolving intelligence, then technology,
> then the Gibson hollow body electric guitar. Nah that kind of stuff
> happens all the time. We just don't know about it with our puny
> telescopes and crummy spectrometers. We're like those rotifers that
> could speak without a larynx, think without a cerebral cortex, but yet
> could not build a simple telescope, and thus lived in their own Local
> Bubble of ignorance. Maybe it was the lack of opposable thumbs?
>
> It doesn't take much to see that the Earth is an incredibly special
> place. For one thing it harbors life. Let's take just one of the
> hundreds of exacting parameters for life and apply it to our Local
> Neighborhood. Magnetospheres for example. Examine the magnetospheres
> of all the other planets in the Solar System. They're all mediocre
> and screwed up! Earth's magnetosphere on the other hand is perfect for
> life. It's magnificent!
>
> I know that Clifton, Ferreira and Land are considered mavericky, but
> they do have equations to back up their assertions. And we all know
> the magico-religious importance of formulae. What if some of our most
> basic assumptions are wrong?
>
> We don't know that things are like this all over. We don't have a
> clue really.
>
> I know this may sound all creationy and all, but Fred Hoyle was no
> fool.
>
> The laws of probability are working against us. We are a magnificent
> impossibility!
>
>
> The Evolution of Life, Probability Considerations
>
> and Common Sense-Part Three
>
> By Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon
>
> The Odds of a Complex Molecule
>
> Noted astronomer Fred Hoyle uses the Rubik cube to illustrate the odds
> of getting a
>
> single molecule, in this case a biopolymer. Biopolymers are biological
> polymers, i.e., large
>
> molecules such as nucleic acids or proteins. In the fascinating
> illustration below, he calls
>
> the idea that chance could originate a biopolymer "nonsense of a high
> order":
>
> At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik
> cube will
>
> concede the near-impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind
> person moving
>
> the cubic faces at random. Now imagine 1050 blind persons each with a
> scrambled
>
> Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all
> simultaneously arriving at
>
> the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random
> shuffling at just one
>
> of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not
> only biopolymers
>
> but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by
> chance in a
>
> primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a
> high order.13
>
> DeNouy provides another illustration for arriving at a single molecule
> of high dissymmetry
>
> through chance action and normal thermic agitation. He assumes 500
> trillion shakings
>
> per second plus a liquid material volume equal to the size of the
> earth. For one molecule it
>
> would require "10243 billions of years." Even if this molecule did
> somehow arise by chance, it
>
> is still only one single molecule. Hundreds of millions are needed,
> requiring compound
>
> probability calculations for each successive molecule. His logical
> conclusion is that "it is
>
> totally impossible to account scientifically for all phenomena
> pertaining to life."14
>
> Even 40 years ago, scientist Harold F. Blum, writing in Time's Arrow
> and Evolution,
>
> wrote that, "The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of
> the smallest known
>
> proteins seems beyond all probability."15
>
> Noted creation scientists Walter L. Bradley and Charles Thaxton,
> authors of The Mystery
>
> of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, point out that the
> probability of assembling
>
> amino acid building blocks into a functional protein is approximately
> one chance in 4.9 X
>
> 10191.16 "Such improbabilities have led essentially all scientists who
> work in the field to reject
>
> random, accidental assembly or fortuitous good luck as an explanation
> for how life began."
>
> 17 Now, if a figure as "small" as 5 chances in 10191 is referenced by
> such a statement,
>
> then what are we to make of the kinds of probabilities below that are
> infinitely less? The
>
> mind simply boggles at the remarkable faith of the materialist.
>
> According to Coppedge, the probability of evolving a single protein
> molecule over 5
>
> billion years is estimated at 1 chance in 10161. This even allows some
> 14 concessions to
>
> help it along which would not actually be present during evolution.18
> Again, this is no
>
> chance.
>
> Cells and Bacteria
>
> Consider that the smallest theoretical cell is made up of 239
> proteins. Further, at least
>
> 124 different types of proteins are needed for the cell to become a
> living thing. But the
>
> simplest known self-reproducing organisms is the H39 strain of PPLO
> (mycoplasma) con
>
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