[beckett]

I must have missed the part where they explained why the theory cannot be reduced to a laboratory experiment. That's a very important feature of these stories. This one sounds like it's good for the "too many eons of time required" exemption.

[AndrewC]

I must have missed the part where they explained why the theory cannot be reduced to a laboratory experiment.

Here's the reason why. It is not science, at least according to many here. That is due to the "hypothesis" being immune to falsifiability.---

It may be that no theory is going to fit all the evidence. The trick is to pick which bits to ignore, says John Raven of the University of Dundee, UK. "To create a coherent hypothesis we have to say 'this bit of data doesn't fit, but we're going ahead anyway'."

Oops! You say the evidence doesn't support it... Just ignore it.