From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Mike  posted:   
   > On 2026-01-06 10:06, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   > > JTEM  posted:   
   > >> On 1/5/26 8:11 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> Yes, an idea -- not a fact.   
   > >>   
   > >>      *Yawn!*   
   > >>   
   > >> You asked a question. I answered it.   
   > >   
   > > With a hypothesis.   
   >   
   > Hypotheses are more likely to lead to facts   
      
   Thank you for confirming that a hypothesis is   
   not a fact.   
   >   
   > than 'beliefs', because they are designed to   
   > be tested and verified,   
      
   The idea that life sprang forth and we all evolved   
   from a single cell has not been verified.   
   >   
   > whereas beliefs do   
   > not require verification.   
      
   It's someone's *belief* that life was transported to   
   our world from some other world (and they're not   
   even sure which world that might have been).   
      
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