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On 9/06/2024 6:30 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 16:08:51 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/8/2024 3:55 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:30:11 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/8/24 16:45, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:54:42 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 10:43:15 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 6/8/24 01:37, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:57:54 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 6/7/24 23:11, Mike Monett VE3BTI wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote:

<snip>

>>> There's nothing mystical about a universe that obviously works.
>>>
>>
>> The "RNA world" hypothesis is that RNA is a very special molecule, the
>> "killer app" that bootstrapped life.
> 
> There are lots of people who want that to be true (never mind the
> details) because they don't want to admit that other things might be
> true.

And aren't supported by any evidence at all.

> Nature has a rude habit of doing things that scientists didn't approve
> of.

Science is process of studying what exists, and making sense of it. 
"Approving" of what they find isn't part of the process.

"Soapy Sam" Wilberforce didn't approve of Darwin's theoryu of evolution, 
but he was theologian rather than a scientist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilberforce

Huxley made mince meat of him.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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