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NoNukes
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Message 103 of 120 (672966)
09-12-2012 7:01 PM
Reply to: Message 102 by Straggler
09-12-2012 1:03 PM


Re: Dismissal of unsupported alternatives.
there are participants in this thread who seem to consider abductions to be the basis of mere conjectures rather than the main basis for forming high confidence conclusions about specific cases.
Are there any examples of theories that aren't formed in this way?

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NoNukes
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Message 120 of 120 (673501)
09-19-2012 5:14 PM
Reply to: Message 117 by Hawkins
09-18-2012 3:55 PM


On the other hand, you misinterpret my meaning in the first place. I said there's no evidence to justify that things are evolved from a single cell.
The idea that all life evolved from a single organism is common descent. Common descent is not required to be correct for evolution to be correct and there could be several lines of evolution at the root of the tree.
There are other problems with your position. For example you attempt to outline steps required in the proof, but of course there are alternative lines of evidence that don't include your requirements.
The main issue with your post, though, is that it is off topic. There are threads open in which your ideas would be on topic, and I'd welcome the opportunity to discuss your points in detail in one of them.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw

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