sparc
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Evolutionnews and ID chief-astrologist G. Gonzalez remain reluctant too because: | Quote | | Under Darwinian assumptions, the observation that such an alternative life chemistry is possible means that some planets previously assumed to be inhospitable to life, due to being poor in phosphorus, would now turn out after all to be potential theaters for life's presumed spontaneous arising. That would seem to bump up the number of possible dice rolls available out there to jump-start an unguided chemical and biological evolutionary process on some other planet. |
As the author of "Priviledged Planet" Gonzalez has to conclude: | Quote | | The results from this study indicate that the bacteria don't grow as well in the arsenic-rich solution. And, more complex organisms seem to be far more intolerant of arsenic. So, arsenic-rich, phosphate-poor planets may be limited to single-celled life. |
As if their designer couldn't cope with a little arsenic and isn't so all-mighty after all.
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"[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God."
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