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To: js1138; valkyry1
No one suggested that Coyote’s list was “scientific.” It was provided as an exhaustive list of the possible ways for life to start.

So what is the scientific alternative then? What's the scientific theory concerning abiogenesis?

237 posted on 08/18/2008 7:03:33 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
What's the scientific theory concerning abiogenesis?

There is no such theory and never has been. Except in the mind of creationists.

There are many conjectures and many lines of research, and many of them are productive.

Impatience is the lot of non-scientists. It has been 400 years since Galileo started investigating gravity and we still don't have a complete theory of gravity. But it's a pretty safe bet that NASA can use incomplete theories of gravity to launch interplanetary probes.

Incompleteness does not mean that magic is a reasonable alternative.

240 posted on 08/18/2008 7:16:20 PM PDT by js1138
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