[thechat] Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer

[aardvark]

> From: Erik Mattheis <gozz at gozz.com>
[...]
> Being that DNA requires RNA to replicate and RNA needs DNA to come
> about in the first place, and the chance of either one being created
> randomly, much more coming together randomly are infintessimaly small,
> I tend to favor Crick: it is a system that could be designed by
> nothing other than an intelligent being, be that being God, Aliens, or
> whatever made God and aliens.

presuming that assertion is correct, (the chicken/egg one), which i
don't buy (but it's late and i just don't have the brainpower or
strength to start pulling books off the shelf over there), ;et's just
pull a number out of the air...

one in a billion?

well, that means 1 billion years into the earth's life, we have had
enough time that we can expect that to happen...

i prescribe to the HHGTTG theory of probability... no matter how
remote the chance, given enough time, it'll happen...

if that means fairy cakes could grow on trees, well, i'm patient...

> PSS: I want my theoretical offspring to spell better than I can. Over
> half the time it took to write this was spent trying to figure out how
> to spell "infintessimaly" and my computer says I still didn't get it
> right.

infinitesimally
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=infinitesimally

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