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To: jwalsh07
But I'll be a nice guy. You can define life as the consensus criteria cited by most scientists.

I'm not aware of any consensus that would apply to first life. That is my point. I'm not playing games. The definition of life is not a settled issue.

Certainly self-replication is part of any definition, but no one knows exactly what a minimal self-replicator would look like. That is another aspect of my point.

587 posted on 06/23/2006 5:52:17 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138

Your point is irrelevant. Abiogenesis is not falsifiable. Biogenesis, on the other hand, is eminently falsifiable. So, according to Popper one is science and one isn't. I disagree with that proposition but I fail to see how you can.


597 posted on 06/23/2006 2:05:21 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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