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OK, thanks. But if abiogenesis is merely a hypothesis, then why isn't evolution itself merely a hypothesis? Because you need abiogenesis in order to have evolution.
Why? Why can't first replicators have been specially created rather than come about by abiogenesis evolve?
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Since the modern theory of evolution requires its first simple life form to have come from no life,
It doesn't. Only the creationist straw-man version requires this. For many years I believed in the special creation of the first replicators; I still fully accepted evolution.
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in order for evolution to be a proven fact, abiogenesis must first be proven.
No, you don't. We don't know how or when exactly the first Anglo-Saxons came to England, but we can study Anglo-Saxon history.
[This message has been edited by Karl, 09-18-2003]
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