Salutatio Keith!
17-Jan-98, Keith Knapp wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: Back to Apes
Does your middle name start with a "K" by chance?  Full initials KKK? ;)
I know... bad joke.  :(
 KK> RM>But hey, you and I can have some fun tossing this idea around.
 KK> Now, RM>your reply to him looks to me like you are excluding ANY
 KK> life from RM>forming on a planet with the conditions like those of
 KK> Venus.  I feel I RM>must disagree with this.  Life as we know it
 KK> (carbon based) may not be RM>able to form or exist unaided on
 KK> Venus, but that does not mean that life RM>based on other
 KK> compounds cannot.  You may be correct, or you may be
 KK> RM>incorrect... it is still open to question, right?
 KK> Right.  There may be conditions in the atmosphere conducive to
 KK> life, and we certainly don't know everything about how life might
 KK> form and evolve.
The only point I wished to make.  Thanks.  MAN, it is sooooo nice 
dealing with one who can think.  |)
 KK> It's only been a few decades sonce we've known
 KK> rock, under frozen lakes in Antarctica, and in the stratosphere
 KK> IIRC. As Chrichton put it in the novel Jurassic Park, life will
 KK> find a way.                   
 
What is "IIRC"
 KK> Actually, the creationist assertion that Venus is the likeliest
 KK> place to look for life is simply a strawman.  Mars is easily the
 KK> best choice, followed perhaps by Jupiter's moon Europa.
              
C'mon what do you expect from creationists, science?  Really, how ever 
much they tout themselves as scientists they are not.  Hey, they can 
basically be ignored, they're so "out to lunch".
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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