abiogenesis hypothesis and the despair of professed materialist

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Yep -- it looks like abiogensis, like evolution, will shortly be tossed on the dust heap of sciences gone bad.

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I will say, however, that your credibility at this point is rather low and if someone is going to overcome this piece of evidence that is perhaps a prima facie piece of evidence perhaps it is better if it is not you.

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If you wish.

The topic is regarding the regularity of despair of professed materialists in the scientific community as a whole.

I would say that if you want to push God out of the picture then the abiogenesis hypothesis is certainly doing no pushing for you.

One interesting find does not make a conference upbeat.

You haven't shown that (1) they are all "materialists" (whatever that means in regards to science ... smells of strawman caricature to me) OR (2) that they are in despair. Nor have you addressed the issue of it not being a dichotomy at all, negating your first sentence