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To: D. Long who wrote (1757)	12/22/2005 12:35:11 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 2253

Lynn Margulis came up with SET - serial endosymbiotic theory - which is now widely and uncritically accepted in textbooks as she herself notes in Symbiotic Planet. (I checked the book out of the library so don't have it now - could provide some great quotes from it if I had it available.) But SET's acceptance doesn't rest on testing in laboratories or anything like that but because people in the field largely think it makes sense. She is also a major proponent of the Gaia hypothesis, that the entire earth acts as a living organism which manipulates or rather creates its environment. Another non-testable idea if there was one. I think it is mistaken to think that only "scientific facts" get mentioned in classrooms. Hypotheses (like SET, Gaia, panspermia - directed or otherwise) are freely discussed except for one hypothesis, which can not now be legally mentioned in a school in some places.