(2005-08-15) — A new multi-million dollar Harvard University effort to study the origins of life in the universe seeks to prove that life did not begin with “a major grant” from an intelligent source, but rather sprang up spontaneously and entirely without purpose.

The university will fund the research with $1 million per year in a number of multi-million dollar facilities, employing some of the best minds in science to establish that the complexity of life started with no plan, no design, no forethought and no intelligent creative agent.

“Harvard University has proven over the years that the more complex something is, the less likely you are to find any intelligence behind it,” said an unnamed university spokesman. “In fact, this ‘origins of life’ project started out as an accidental ink spill on paper, and it just developed from there.”

The university said the study should take several million years to complete and is unlikely to produce any meaningful result.

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