Posted: Apr 14, 2010 12:21 pm
rainbow wrote:Spearthrower wrote:No, that's not the way you start a thread.
I'll start it the way I like.
Please note that your appeal to authority is unwarranted. I would like to discuss the actual conditions and see where there is evidence that this is indeed 'plausible' in a prebiotic environment.
Any objections?
Appealing to an authority is not always fallacious. In this case, the application of authority is most certainly warranted.
The paper was published in a respected journal.
There are 37 citations in a very brief period of time.
This indicates that professional chemists working on this topic accept the plausibility of the model.
That means that, should you choose to disagree, you need to provide substantive reasons why you challenge the plausibility of it.
You have opened yet another thread where you have provided zero input and asked other people to make commentary on something that is clearly stated as plausible.
You are most certainly obliged to state why you would even question that it is plausible otherwise this thread is redundant by definition.
I recommend merging it with the other, already opened, Abiogenesis thread.