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To: js1138
You help make my point for me. Being stuck in Poppers box limits inquiry and research. Certainly there is scientific knowledge to be gleaned from investigating how life began on Earth so soon after the planet cooled but any hypothesis of abiogenesis on the thrid rock is, by definition, unfalsifiable.

Does that mean folks should call abiogenetic researchers names because they seek knowledge through their hypotheses? I certainly don't think so.

492 posted on 06/22/2006 5:52:23 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07

Pure nonsense. Any specific hypothesis in molelular biology can be confirmed or falsified.

There a number of interrelated questions regarding biogenesis. One is finding a possible path, one that works in the laboratory. Another is determining if the necessary conditions are part of a plausible history of the earth. Any specific hypothesis in these areas can be confirmed or falsified.

Obviously thes problems are hard, but there are problems in science that have taken millennia to solve. Do you think science should give up when it incounters difficult problems?


523 posted on 06/22/2006 9:59:12 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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