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Tangent0011 year, 8 months ago
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I'll restate: science is not about proof, it's about evidence and the rational interpretation thereof. If life from non-life was achieved in a lab, that would support the theory of abiogenesis, but would not be 'proof' of it, even in an empirical sense. The first complex organic molecules could have been deposited by a meteor, or could have been 'poofed' into existence by God.
To a certain extent, as evidence mounts science will tend to say 'there ya go', as it generally has with evolution. The process is still open to challenges, but the evidence better be pretty damn good.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 8 months ago
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I thought science's goal was finding out facts about the natural world by compiling proo-uh, compelling test results from which to reach a conclusion?
so I take it then your answer is 'no' to my question?
so the long term goal of science is not proving a theory?
you'll have to be patient with me, science is not something I've studied
BTW if finding fact or proving a theory is not the goal of the abiogenesis experiments, what is? just random data gathering? doing cool stuff? --because that sounds pretty neat to me, very Frankenstein-y
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