Fact or Fiction? (General)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, March 14, 2010, 21:09 (5179 days ago) @ dhw

dhw writes: "I'd like to extend this account one step further: "God or sheer chance may have brought certain chemicals together so that they were able to copy themselves. God or sheer chance may have wrapped them in oil bubbles which held them together. God or sheer chance may have given them mechanisms that enabled them to adapt to new conditions and to produce new organs and faculties. Thanks to this God- or chance-assembled mechanism of adaptation and innovation, the original tiny, primitive cells eventually developed into us." A lot of adults currently believe in one or other version, and some are convinced that theirs is based on scientific evidence." -It seems then that God is indistinguishable from Chance. We know that chance exists. The entire science of statistics is based on it. -
With regard to the first part of dhw's post, there was an interesting discussion of Boudicca/Boadicea on Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" this week on BBC Radio 4. A couple of the speakers there, historians, indicated that she could be completely mythical, because of the lack of contemporary evidence. Though Tacitus was writing not long after the events. Certainly she has been presented in different guises by later generations to suit their own ends.

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GPJ