Posted: Apr 13, 2010 2:57 pm
Rumraket wrote:rainbow wrote:Rumraket wrote:
Before we can try and look for indirect evidence, we must first define what that would be. In the case of Primordial Soup, what is that, specifically?
Well according to some hypotheses, the early earth was awash with high concentrations of organic compounds.
Now depending on which hypothesis you believe, these compounds differ, as does their origin.
As I don't know which is your favourite, and I've no favourite, I can't really point to the hypothesis for which we are looking for supporting evidence. Can I?
Your choice.
Well I can't really pick one either.
The best I can do is more or less to try and read up on what the "general consensus" in abiogenesis research is, if there even is such a thing. I actually don't think there is.
Perhaps then you can appreciate my irritation with people that wave at the 78 Papers, and state that the evidence is there, when these papers represent very diverse hypotheses wrt. Abiogenesis.
I can identify half-a-dozen scenarios, and they have some laboratory work to show that they are possible.
...but they cannot be all correct.
Therefore which evidence of possibility do we take?