Ping!
Posting from WWN again, I see.
I need to see how Bat Boy is doing.
Who else remembers this?
lol
Bizarre.
It seems clear that no one knows how the planets were formed or even if all were formed in the same way or what influence already existing planets had on the formation of the last formed.
Even plausible conjecture is still only that even if computer simulations work perfectly since no one knows what the original condition of the solar system was.
But who knows, maybe someday ....
Nice job of quote mining there.
Now lets look at that last quote in the proper context.
“In the end, there is no agreement on how to solve the problem of life’s origin. Martin thinks that research on the topic is “unfalsifiable conjecture” — the best we can hope for is a convincing story. “Even if you were to make a reactor in the laboratory, and put hydrogen and carbon dioxide and nitrogen in one end, and out pops something like Escherichia coli at the other end, you still couldn’t prove that we and our ancestors arose that way. You’d just have a narrative that made it more plausible.”
Russell thinks that if his reactor produces just about anything from tar to E. coli it will have been worthwhile — he quotes Thomas Edison’s remark that he did not build 1,000 failed prototype light bulbs; rather he discovered 1,000 ways that the light bulb wouldn’t work (see page 312 for one that did). Similarly, Russell hopes to help move the field forwards by sorting out what was possible and what was improbable around those warm vents, some 4 billion years ago. That’s the most he can do, he says. “It’s just a step at a time
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090520/full/459316a.html
Taking things out of context, it just seems so dishonest.
Apparently the author never heard of gravity. Gravity is just a "theory", right?
Gravity cannot create planets, solar systems, galaxies or any such. Birkeland currents however can. I am not aware of any evidence of God ever having worked outside the laws of physics; if you want violations of mathematical and physical laws in wholesale lots, you need to be talking to the evolosers. They specialize in that sort of thing.