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To: Boiler Plate
Direct evidence would have been [...]

Scientists almost never expect to find "direct evidence."

Rather, several items of mutually-supporting indirect evidence are considered more than sufficient to work with.

Regards,

44 posted on 11/23/2017 9:05:07 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Exactly! So it should not be called Direct Evidence as though it was a Detective Show. Most likely the scientists did not put that way, only the writer.
Cheers,


48 posted on 11/24/2017 1:54:41 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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