The limitations of science (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 21, 2010, 01:21 (5388 days ago) @ George Jelliss

DT writes: "If chance doesn't work what is left? George's argument of endless time is not available." 
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> I'm not aware of ever arguing for endless time. And of course I have to keep emphasising that chance doesn't just work on its own but in conjunction with natural selection. 
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> I just don't accept DT's statistics, which argue that evolution by natural selection from chance variation is too improbable. But lets not go over all that again here.-I apologize for being facetious. 200-400 million years is rather short in the life of the Earth (4.5 billion years) for such a complex process as life to have arranged itself by chance. Natural selection starts after life appears. Darwin's evolution theory starts after life appears. I was discussing the appearance of organic life from inorganic startings.