Re: Origin of Life, thermodynamics 2/2 #2

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:35:28 -0400

At 3:04 AM -0400 7/24/97, Kipp quoted Pim:

>Pim: Perhaps if you can explain and observe tennis shoes having sex
>and
>multiplying ? Passing on their 'genetic' information ?

Well of course tennis shoes propagate and evolve. Richard Dawkins had it
wrong. The whole human enterprise exists not for the purpose of
propagating genetic material, but for the purpose of propagating tennis
shoes :-).

Bill Hamilton
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