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To: betty boop
We are not yet speaking of the same thing, i think.

Apparently not. I do not usually discuss abiogenesis, except to say that existing proposals are hypotheses rather than theories.

1,840 posted on 02/06/2005 8:45:33 PM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
I do not usually discuss abiogenesis, except to say that existing proposals are hypotheses rather than theories.

Well I wasn't speaking of abiogenesis there, js1138. (Did you want to discuss that?) I agree with you that existing proposals are hypotheses, not theories. But you got to start somewhere!!! And it seems science usually does start with hypotheses, and then tries to falsify them. If they stand up to repeated test, then they may be well on their way to becoming theories at some point. But surely, the hypothesis of abiogenesis is far, far from that point. Or so it seems to me.

Thanks for writing, js1138!

1,856 posted on 02/07/2005 8:36:04 AM PST by betty boop
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