[DannyTN]

"Well, you have to work with what you've got "

And even when you've got nothing, their's always imagination.

[Ogmios]

Science never works from nothing, I have no idea where you get this from.

Science comes up with a hypothesis, and then tests it and tests it.

That's what all of these abiogenesis hypothesis are all about, we come up with plausible scenarios, and then see if there is anything to them, when they check out, make predictions, help us study other phenomonon, then they become theories.

None of us are sold on any particular hypothesis regarding Abiogenesis, but it sure is fun to contemplate and kick around.

[donh]

And even when you've got nothing, their's always imagination

Yes, well, but we don't have "nothing" do we? We have a gobsmack of evidence, from paleo-meteorology, from paleontological excavation, chemical experiments and DNA mutational distance backtracing.