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Politics : Evolution
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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (804)9/18/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
>Obviously by the fortuitous, random evolutionary arguments, it MUST HAVE BEEN
SLIME:
We have no scientific evidence that there was
anything else around prior to that,<

There are two contradictory statements here, Tunica.
I accept the latter sentence as "fact".
But the former one is pure supposition. If you'd recalled my earlier postings on the subject, you wouldn't belabor this point since I'd already addressed it.
What came between the condensation of the solar system and the first unicell? WE DON'T KNOW. Basta. But it'll be fun trying to find out.
The mudhole theory is a hypothesis - and it has the advantage of lining up nicely with established scientific fact.
The Guiding Hand cluster of theories ... have no scientific support. They are driven by extrascientific motives.

You speak of intellectual honesty. I ask you to exercise same and not confuse my postings with those of others here. I have a fair-to-excellent idea of the faultline between fact and supposition. And any "there must have been XXXXX" statements are suppositions topped with a rich, creamy meringue of ideological imperative.

In time the truth will out. (Whatever it is.) This thread will fade into e-dust, but the eternal struggle between curiosity and canon seems to be a human constant. Alas.
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