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On 30-Apr-2001, Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:

> In talk.atheism jones2000 <jones2000_nospam_@madasafish.com> wrote:
> : Unfortunatly the creationists have a point. The origins of life are fare
> : from clear. There are problems with all the current theories. The truth
> of
> : the mater is that we just don't know how life started. I feel sure that
> : science will eventully unraval this mistery.
>
> I don't think this is even possible.  Socrates noticed that all knowlege
> is based on other knowlege.  (We know A because we know B and C, and we
> know B and C because we know D, E, and F, and so on and so forth).  If
> the end of this chain is dangling, then we don't really *know* anything.
> He sought out someone with true knowlege and never found it.  But that
> was because his criteria were too high.  It isn't possible to find the
> end of the chain because some pesky person will always be able to ask
> one more time, "But why is that true?".  Even positing a God doesn't
> end this, despite what Thomas Aquinas might say to the contrary.
>
> Finding the true "origin" of something is a nearly infinite process
> leading back to the big bang.  (And then of course,
> "why did the big bang happen?")

Somebody farted? (couldn't help myself.. the reply just popped..sorry.. no
ofense meant)