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God Made Me A Skeptic
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AV1611 said:The chicken egg in order for a chicken to hatch needs to contain a chicken however in order for that to happen a chicken must already have existed...hence the problem.
Not really.
The key here is that the thing that hatches from the egg can be a tiny bit different from the thing that laid the egg. And if you repeat that thousands of times... You can get a chicken even though you didn't start with one.
The analogy to English speaking parents and children is quite good. The language I speak is very, very, slightly different from what my parents spoke; the language they spoke is different from what their parents spoke. By the time you've scrolled back to 1611, the language is very different, as I'm sure you're aware. By the time you get back to, say, 800AD, there's nothing recognizable as "English".
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