From: "Gary Britt" 

No.  I don't remember where I got it, but definitely not the Onion.  I
don't think I've ever been there.

Gary

"Dave"  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:23:03 -0400, "Gary Britt"
>  wrote in message :
>
> | 2005-08-15) -- A new multi-million dollar Harvard University effort to
study
> | the origins of life in the universe seeks to prove that life did not
begin
> | with "a major grant" from an intelligent source, but
rather sprang up
> | spontaneously and entirely without purpose.
> | The university will fund the research with $1 million per year in a
number
> | of multi-million dollar facilities, employing some of the best minds in
> | science to establish that the complexity of life started with no plan,
no
> | design, no forethought and no intelligent creative agent.
> |
> | "Harvard University has proven over the years that the more complex
> | something is, the less likely you are to find any intelligence behind
it,"
> | said an unnamed university spokesman. "In fact, this 'origins of life'
> | project started out as an accidental ink spill on paper, and it just
> | developed from there."
> |
> | The university said the study should take several million years to
complete
> | and is unlikely to produce any meaningful result.
>
> This is from The Onion, right???

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