>> If you are interested in the nature of laughter and its affects on
>> stress and immunology, perhaps you would like to read my piece:
>> Laughter as a displacement activity: the implications for humor
>> theory.
>>
>> It can be accessed through the academic section of HumorLinks.
>>
>>
http://www.humorlinks.com/cgi-bin/sites/page.cgi?g=Academic%%2Findex.h...
>>
>> Scroll down to the picture of the elephant and the blind men and click
>> on: "A new perspective on laughter and humor"
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>> Baz
George Wald, the Harvard biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in
physiology/medicine in 1967, made the following statement regarding
the theory of spontaneous generation: "When it comes to the origin of
life, there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous
generation. There is not a third way. Spontaneous generation was
disproved one hundred years ago [by Louis Pasteur], but that leads us
to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot
accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore we choose to believe
the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance. One has only
to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the
spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we
are, as the result, I believe, of spontaneous generation."
( George Wald, "The Origin of Life," Scientific American, May 1954.)
In a similar vein, Francis Crick and James Watson won the Nobel Prize
in 1962 for their discovery of the structure and function of DNA. In
1982 Francis Crick, an evolutionist, wrote a book entitled Life
Itself, Its Origin and Nature. In his book Crick says: "An honest man,
armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state
that, in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be
almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to
have been satisfied to get it going."
I think spontaneous creation of everything is continuous, and
knowledge of the whole exits in all the parts.
Art
http://home.ptd.net/~artnpeg
