[extropy-chat] ET is a Bacterium

[Robert Lindauer]

You're hilarious.  May it take you far.

So the story is that some incorrectly chromosomed proto-chicken managed 
to hatch and egg AND find a matching incorrectly chromosomed 
proto-chicken that knew what to do with it to make a REAL chicken come 
out the other side?

But you still have the problem, where'd the proto-chicken come from?

Choices are, as I see it, primordial ooze (which doesn't seem to be 
experimentally viable), space bugs (which leave the same questions 
open), an intelligent designer (which gives some people the willies, 
probably understandably), or life is co-existent with the temporally 
unbounded universe (which may not give anyone the willies but it does 
cause a lot of confusion - especially when you throw in evolution as an 
order-increasing force in the universe with an eternity to organize 
itself...  you'd think we'd have a completely well-ordered universe by 
now inhabited by perfect intelligences - on second thought such a 
proposal might give someone the willies after all).

Best Wishes,

Robbie Lindauer


The Avantguardian wrote:

>--- Robert Lindauer <robgobblin at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  (Which
>  
>
>>came first, the chicken or the egg - answer
>>"neither".  Response, "wha?").
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Actually. The egg came first. Something that was
>almost, but not quite, a chicken laid an egg and it
>hatched into a chicken. ;)
>
>
>The Avantguardian 
>is 
>Stuart LaForge
>alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
>
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