From: John Beckett 

Ellen K.  wrote in message
news::
> Re intelligent design, I saw the following quote from George Gallup
> recently:
>
> "I could prove G-d statistically.  Take the human body alone -- the
> chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a
> statistical monstrosity."

Surely only Homer Simpson would misunderstand the Theory of Evolution
enough to find this quote interesting.

For the record, it is without doubt absolutely impossible that the human
body just happened. That much is obvious. The question is, HOW DID IT
HAPPEN?

The answer "X did it" would be helpful if anything meaningful
could be said about X.

However, we don't need to resort to mumbo jumbo - scientists have found an
explanation for every repeatable phenomenon ever observed. Some
explanations have been plainly wrong, and were subsequently abandoned.
Maybe in another 100 years all scientists will declare that the first cell
must have been created by God. However, once a cell is formed, the human
body (or something equally complex) is just a matter of time.

What irritates me about the general misunderstanding of evolution is how
much REALLY interesting reading supposedly-intelligent people are missing
out on. The details of how you actually get from a cell to a human are
fascinating.

John

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