merrymadscientist wrote:
He's saying this simply because he hasnt found the right jar of peanut butter yet - why should he be so priveliged? A work colleague was saying only a couple of days ago that she opened a multi-pack of Club chocoloate biscuits and there were maggots inside all of them (and these were sealed packets). Doesn't this PROVE abiogenesis from 'energy'?
And not to mention the most famous snail in Legal History: "Donoghue v Stevenson", [1932] AC 562; House of Lords:
"By an action brought in the Court of Session the appellant, who was a shop assistant, sought to recover damages from the respondent, who was a manufacturer of aerated waters, for injuries she suffered as a result of consuming part of the contents of a bottle of ginger-beer which had been manufactured by the respondent, and which contained the decomposed remains of a snail. The appellant by her condescendence averred that the bottle of ginger-beer was purchased for the appellant by a friend in a café at Paisley, which was occupied by one Minchella; that the bottle was made of dark opaque glass and that the appellant had no reason to suspect that it contained anything but pure ginger-beer; ..."
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/hamlyn/donoghue.htm