From: Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:48:05 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Wee Beasties on Mars [NOISE]
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>>>>> Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com> writes:

  > ... the most interesting fallout of this will be in
  > the creationism/evolution debate.  

Perhaps, but I doubt it.

  > It seems that life may have
  > been independantly generated at multiple locations, barring a
  > "space seed" debate flaring up again, and the "impossible odds"
  > argument has become pretty weak...

I doubt if it weakens the Creationists' stand, though.  After all, if
God created life on Earth, she could have created it anywhere else she
wanted, without having to ask permission of the inhabitants of the
"third rock from the sun".  [As you're no doubt aware, this has been,
in part, the premise of several moderately-successful SF novels.]

ObCrypto?  Are you kidding -- cryptogamology, maybe...

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