Re: Petroleum, Design, Hoyle's Warning to the World

George Murphy wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "wallyshoes" <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
> To: "ed babinski" <ed.babinski@furman.edu>
> Cc: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Petroleum, Design, Hoyle's Warning to the World
>
> >
> >
> > ed babinski wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> SERIOUS chilling comment: The famed astrophysicist, Hoyle, once made a
> >> prediction regarding a possible future that the world's leaders need to
> >> address more urgently now than ever before (though folks like Ross will
> >> probably find a way to put a "designer's smile" on this too, should
> >> things
> >> turn out this way):
> >>
> >> "It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of
> >> it here on Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the
> >> sense of developing high intelligence this is not correct. We have, or
> >> soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as
> >> this planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic
> >> ores gone, no species however competent can make the long climb from
> >> primitive conditions to high-level technology. This is a one-shot affair.
> >> If we fail, this planetary system fails so far as intelligence is
> >> concerned. The same will be true of other planetary systems. On each of
> >> them there will be one chance, and one chance only. (Hoyle, 1964;
> >> emphasis
> >> added)
> >> For the complete article see
> >> http://www.dieoff.com/page125.htm
> >
> > This is the same Hoyle who ridiculed the "big bang" theory and advocated
> > the
> > "steady state" theory.
> >
> > Maybe he will be wrong again.
>
> & the same Hoyle who worked out stellar nucleosynthesis with Fowler &
> others. Maybe he will be right again.
>
> Yes, he was wrong about the steady state theory but it was in its time a
> good theory & Hoyle's work in arguing for it advamced scientific cosmology.
> He was certainly a good enough scientist that his arguments ought to be
> examined on there own merits - & the one noted above seems fairly
> plausible - without trying to condemn them with guilt by association
> tactics.

You have been debating Glenn for so long that you can longer take a simple
comment at face value without assuming that it is some sort of debating tactic.

Get a life, George.

Walt

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Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>

In any consistent theory, there must
exist true but not provable statements.
(Godel's Theorem)

You can only find the truth with logic
If you have already found the truth
without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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Received on Tue Oct 5 13:35:13 2004