Re: [asa] Harvard study

Burgy,

I take it you found the following quote offensive:
    “My expectation is
    that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of
    logical events that could have taken place with no divine
    intervention.”

If so, why? Lots of phenomena of nature at one time were thought to be effected directly by God or angels. Origin of life is certainly a prime one. I hear the yahoo simply saying he thinks there's a scientific explanation. That's the necessary bias of all scientists working on such project. Did you hear, "Let's crucify God again!"?

    Just because it's his expectation doesn't make it so; but if it is so, I for one would like very much to know.
    It seems on the face of it that it should be much easier to generate life in a well-controlled
    lab environment than it was to generate it in nature; and once you have the recipe,
    you should be able to do it over and over. Presumably all that's involved are just chemical
    reactions, so they shouldn't require great spans of time.

On the other hand, if they don't get anywhere in the lab, that will tell us something also.

Don

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: burgytwo@juno.com<mailto:burgytwo@juno.com>
  To: asa@calvin.edu<mailto:asa@calvin.edu>
  Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:07 AM
  Subject: [asa] Harvard study

  Latest AIG blurb, with which I have some sympathy. Too bad they did
  not identify the yahoo from Harvard whose quote they lifted.

  Q: Is an Ivy League school really spending millions of dollars to
  prove there’s no God?

  A: These days it seems as though everyone is jumping into the
  creation/evolution debate. Not wanting to be left out, Harvard
  announced a new multimillion dollar research project, the “Origins of
  Life in the Universe Initiative.” They’re setting aside $1 million a
  year to try to prove what they already believe.

  Listen to what a Harvard professor of chemistry and chemical biology
  told the New York Times about the origin of life: “My expectation is
  that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of
  logical events that could have taken place with no divine
  intervention.”

  For all the PhDs that Harvard may hand out—and for all the good
  science they may do—none of it is important when it comes to
  eternity. If they’re producing atheists, then what’s the point in the
  long run?

  As Matthew 16 tells us, “What profit is it to a man if he gains the
  whole world, and loses his own soul?”
   
  Burgy

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Received on Sun Oct 29 01:17:46 2006