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To: donh
Since you don't like the math proofs, how would you falsify abiogenesis?

You have to divide this into two questions: How would I formally falsify abiogensis? By examining the entire state space of the universe as if it were a giant chess game I could read backwards in time and constructing of eden proof: ie, a proof that some point in evolution could not be reached from a starting point with no life in it.

As Hoyle and Morowitz did.

I think it is a safe guess that humans will never have enough resources to attempt this proof.

So it can't be falsified. (This means it has fallen as a science,)

650 posted on 06/17/2002 12:10:41 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
So it can't be falsified. (This means it has fallen as a science,)

Kindly submit your proof that the approaches I have suggested are the only possible ways to falsify abiogensis.

652 posted on 06/17/2002 12:13:47 PM PDT by donh
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To: Tribune7
As Hoyle and Morowitz did.

They, of course, did nothing of the sort. In terms of my suggested computation, they picked one back-vector out of countless trillions of the back-in-time computations that would be required to examine the universe exhaustively. As they say, it's not that you're right; it's not that you're wrong. It's that you aren't even in the game.

654 posted on 06/17/2002 12:18:21 PM PDT by donh
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