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To: Junior
If you have physical, testable evidence that God did it, please present it. Understand, however, that "God did it" is not the default position.

I certainly do not have evidence to present. But does there have to be a default position of abiogenesis given the lack of theories to support that position? Or can there still be scientific inquiry into other possibilities?
517 posted on 08/17/2004 6:02:50 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood

Scientists can enquire into whatever directions they desire. Nothing is stopping anyone from testing for the Almighty's hand in the origins of life. How would you go about setting up such a test?


520 posted on 08/17/2004 6:08:54 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: microgood
I certainly do not have evidence to present. But does there have to be a default position of abiogenesis given the lack of theories to support that position?

Abiogenesis is not the current paradigm because it is some sort of "default position" -- it's the current paradigm because that's what the evidence indicates.

Or can there still be scientific inquiry into other possibilities?

Sure -- and there is.

528 posted on 08/17/2004 6:21:51 PM PDT by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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