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08-10-2015, 08:38 AM | #2541049 / #51 | |
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...so do you have a proper example, we can examine?
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08-10-2015, 09:36 AM | #2541050 / #52 | ||
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How would you rank them by probability? If your cannot rank them, what is your reason for assigning them equal probability? (I'm guessing cowardice or laziness, please correct me if I'm wrong). It seems you all assign them probability 0, do you? |
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08-10-2015, 10:11 AM | #2541052 / #53 | |||
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Living organisms are made up of non-living material. There is no evidence of a substance called "life". Thank you for exposing your fantasy belief.
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08-10-2015, 02:24 PM | #2541123 / #55 | |||||
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Many of those studies have positive conclusions from testing the hypothesis. They are not all-inclusive types of tests but building blocks that others can use in further hypothesis and experiments. So, I choose ... :
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What more do YOU want? Or, maybe, you could write up a geologic hypothesis about promordial soup deposits. |
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08-10-2015, 04:52 PM | #2541212 / #56 | |||
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Rainbow might be a Vitalist without knowing that he is. :
That would explain his answers about artificial urea.
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08-11-2015, 09:27 AM | #2541638 / #57 | |||
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Stop making things up.
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08-11-2015, 09:29 AM | #2541639 / #58 | |||
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08-11-2015, 09:32 AM | #2541640 / #59 | |||||||
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Quite an obvious error on your part. :
I lack any Belief in the Primordial Soup.
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08-11-2015, 09:35 AM | #2541641 / #60 | |||
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Good so can we bin that and talk about vent theory?
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08-11-2015, 09:39 AM | #2541642 / #61 | |||
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...since we don't really have much evidence being presented, it is a tad difficult to rank them. But you must have YOUR favourite. Which is it?
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08-11-2015, 10:00 AM | #2541643 / #62 | |||||
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And think that that is clever. What do you think is the origin of life? And why is artificial urea irrelevant? It shows that living things are made up of ordinary matter. Life is a behaviour. Why does that behaviour of ordinary matter require outside intervention? Without evidence of that requirement, there is no need to invoke that requirement.
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08-11-2015, 10:04 AM | #2541644 / #63 | |||||
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Remember the discussion is about the origin of life. And I'm guessing his favourite is abiogenesis. Non-abiogenesis does not have any evidence. "not much" wins over no evidence. And there is not enough evidence to completely narrow it down from abiogenesis. Thanks for playing. Do you want to change the game to there is not enough evidence to pick a particular abiogenesis theory?
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08-11-2015, 10:08 AM | #2541645 / #64 | |||||
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Still not clear if you just don't want to do the work, or are afraid of being wrong. Lazy or coward (or something else!) is still a mystery. But, hypothetically, if you were not lazy or a coward(or something else!), and if the amounts and degrees of convincingness of the evidence were not equal it would be possible to rank them. No? So, do you think the amounts and degrees of convincingness of the evidence is equal for all hypotheses? Or do you believe something is only evidence when it's convincing and/or something can either be completely convincing or completely unconvincing without anything in between? In that case the "something else" could be idiot. Do you prefer idiot to lazy or coward? :
It's not very good but better than yours. |
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08-11-2015, 10:13 AM | #2541646 / #65 | |||||||
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Or have you simply broken the origin of life down to abiogenesis and non-abiogenesis? If he wants it broken down further he will have to find people who claim to have done so.
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08-11-2015, 10:43 AM | #2541651 / #66 | |||||||
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I prefer "it's all chemistry" because it's shorter and close enough. As a hypothesis it's pretty useless, which puts me miles ahead of rainbow. Even a slightly informed guess with a whiff more detail than mine would put rainbow ahead. But rainbow doesn't care, she's just here to whine. |
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08-11-2015, 01:29 PM | #2541693 / #67 | |||||
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Are you one of those people who can only keep one data point in their head while they discuss things? IF Stromatolites were representative of early life (say 500 million years after their start) THEN their environment could be representative of early life conditions. Therefore, any fossil evidence we have of the Stromatolite environment could elucidate further investigation into the pre-Abiogenesis environment. It's like all or nothing with you. The inability to fathom the difference between all/most/some/none. :
Your negative "Belief" is actually a better starting position for investigation, that way you can challenge some established norms through a rigorous hypothesis. A negative result of a valid hypothesis is as much a discovery as a positive result. It's becoming apparent that you don't do science much. |
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08-11-2015, 01:32 PM | #2541694 / #68 | ||||
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So you said above that you would somehow discredit the various hypothesis around underwater vent theories as the origin of life. Go ahead .... or do you wish me to present one of the many papers and you can review and attempt to discredit it? |
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08-11-2015, 07:04 PM | #2541859 / #70 | |
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What is apparent from rainbow's whinging is that she doesn't appreciate (or accept) that very many research papers have been done that still provide evidence about how the early earth functioned. And if there is some reason that some Abiogenesis investigator needs to investigate conditions that some "Pre-Biotic Soup" scientist has already looked at and written up then that earlier paper becomes a cite on later research. That's why discussions of the type that rainbow wishes to have (i.e. "What Abiogenesis hypothesis do you believe?") are mostly without merit since the fundamental mechanisms may already be discovered and written; it's just that someone hasn't put all the pieces together yet. |
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08-14-2015, 09:34 AM | #2544032 / #71 | ||||||
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It is not all/most/some Evidence of the Soup. It is none. See. I can tell the difference.
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08-14-2015, 09:37 AM | #2544033 / #72 |
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Seems as if certain people do refer to it as if it were established fact. Papers are still being published in journals that refer to this Mythology.
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08-14-2015, 09:39 AM | #2544035 / #73 | |
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Present and defend your favourite hypothesis. Are you brave enough?
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08-14-2015, 10:17 AM | #2544044 / #74 |
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This is the problem, none of us are particularly attached to any hypothesis. The one we favour is the least worst one. It isn't necessarily convincing, its just better than the alternatives.
This is something you cannot seem to be able to grasp. None of the scientific hypotheses are necessarily good, but they are all better than "dunno", which seems to be your alternative. An alternative that makes no testable predictions, has no ability to be refuted, and is basically completely useless as a basis for formulating a research programme. And each and every one of them has more evidence for them than "a biog boy did it and ran away". And of course nobody cares whether you're not convinced by something. Unless you can present an alternative that is better than any of the current models of abiogenesis.
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08-14-2015, 10:32 AM | #2544047 / #75 | ||
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My defense is "It's better than what you have". Your turn. |
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