Revealing thought experiment

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Sujet : Revealing thought experiment
De : me22over7 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (MarkE)
Groupes : talk.origins
Date : 07. Feb 2025, 23:02:30
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Does the following quotation demonstrate that the naturalistic origin of life involves amplifying a vanishingly small probability (i.e. the probability of spontaneous generation in a jar, with small probabilistic resources of space and time available), to a larger probability (i.e. the universe over its entire history)?
That is, does it demonstrate that the naturalistic origin of life is spontaneous generation, only with more time and space than Redi and Pasteur allowed?
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"At this point, I introduced Louis Pasteur’s pasteurization experiment, which convinced the world that even microorganisms could not be generated spontaneously.
And all students agreed on that conclusion. The following text is a record of my conversation with my students afterward.
Tan. Are you confident that the experiments by Redi and Pasteur have proved that spontaneous generation is impossible?
Students. Yes.
Tan. Sure?
Students. Yes.
Tan. Does it matter what sizes the jars/bottles were?
Students. No.
Tan. Does it matter how long they waited?
Students. No.
Tan. Sure?
Students. Yes.
Tan. What if the bottles are very big? I mean very big, really big. Still positive?
Students. Yes.
Tan. How about this big? (A picture of the globe was shown.) Still positive?
Students. Uh… (Some hesitated.)
Tan. How about this big? (A picture of the visible universe of the Hubble deep field was shown.) Still positive?
Students. (Silence.)
How about you?"
Tan, Change; Stadler, Rob. The Stairway To Life: An Origin-Of-Life Reality Check (pp. 179-180). Evorevo Books. Kindle Edition.

Date Sujet#  Auteur
7 Feb 25 * Revealing thought experiment7MarkE
8 Feb 25 +* Re: Revealing thought experiment3RonO
8 Feb 25 i`* Re: Revealing thought experiment2MarkE
8 Feb 25 i `- Re: Revealing thought experiment1RonO
10 Feb 25 `* Re: Revealing thought experiment3Ernest Major
10 Feb 25  +- Re: Revealing thought experiment1Bob Casanova
10 Feb 25  `- Re: Revealing thought experiment1MarkE

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