Re: Expelled...not bad....anyone?

On Apr 20, 7:08=A0pm, Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ken McElhaney wrote:
> > Tyler Trafford wrote:
> >> Ken McElhaney wrote:
>
> >>> Gee guys...if you admit you don't know...And yet the theories they
> >>> propose (such as the combination of the necessary elements forming
on
> >>> the back of a crystal...I'm not making this up) make "Intelligent
> >>> Design" look pretty darn sane.
>
> >> <quote:Dawkins>
> >> He happened to choose the theory proposed by the Scottish chemist
> >> Graham Cairns-Smith, that organic life was preceded by a strange and
> >> intriguing world of replicating patterns on the surfaces of crystals
> >> in inorganic clays.
> >> </quote>
>
> > So he chose a bad one, is that it?
>
> Not being either a biologist or a crystallographer, I have less than no
> idea of the plausibility of the hypothesis.

I didn't realize his theory was so complex that a college degree was
necessary to understand the basics of it. I would assume that any
published theory has been preceeded by at least a little
experimentation. Since all the elements of this theory currently exist
(save for perhaps the "strange world" part...:) certainly someone has
posted some results?

Ken