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To: jwalsh07
In fact, why don't you tell us how the theory, and I use the term loosely, of abiogenesis can be falsified.

There is no theory of abiogenesis. Just as there was no theory of gravity at the time of Galileo.

Nevertheless, the earth moved in Galileo's time, and continues to do so.

There are numerous conjectures regarding abiogenesis, and some have already been falsified. as we learn more, the conjectures will become more specific.

433 posted on 06/21/2006 7:40:38 PM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138
There are numerous conjectures regarding abiogenesis, and some have already been falsified. as we learn more, the conjectures will become more specific.

Abiogenesis as the "conjecture" of how life got to the third rock can never be falsified. There isn't even agreement on whether a pre biotic soup existed or what it was composed of. Nor is there any evidence of the composition of the atmosphere. Some things are unknowable. Speculation is not evidence and just so statements are not testable.

Falsifying a hypothesis that says two eggs, a piece of cheese and some heat makes a ham omelet says nothing about how life appeared on Earth.

Yet the document above claims that its started through natural chemical processes. That is a just so stroy backed by zero evidence and unfalsifiable.

434 posted on 06/21/2006 7:49:12 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: js1138
Oh and one other thing.

They may be RIGHT but they are stuck in Karl Poppers box and can't get up.

435 posted on 06/21/2006 7:50:43 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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