Sorry Percy... you're right. At the very least, molbiogirl should be allowed to summarize any evidence before the thread is closed. She and I were the primary participants in this debate. I'll hold my tongue after this (restless evil that it is).
Just remember that this debate was about evidence. Any summaries should show either that there is none to date (my view) by critique of the wholly theoretical evidence given by the counter-perspective throughout this thread. Or, they should provide such evidence as has not yet been presented and thoroughly debunked previously.
Summaries about the relevancy of evidence, the lack of evidence, or the evidence of the ID position do not address the issue at all, and only serve to confuse and distort the issue. That is why I felt the need to respond to yours and Chiroptera's summaries. They were irrelevant! This thread is
not about the evidence for design. It's about the lack of evidence for the theory of abiogenesis. Though all of us meandered from time to time, I think we did pretty well at governing each other. For example, your temporary shutting of the thread was timely.
I realize that this puts severe limits on the evolutionary view. Such is the demand of emperical evidence. It reduces the possible summary of the counter-perspective to essentially saying that
'we have no emperical evidence to date, but that we are still looking'. That was the entire point of thread and I am very satisfied with the results. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to express the problem and ask the questions given to my opponents.
I'll now zip-it!
molbiogirl, you have the floor...
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