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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/4/25 6:45 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   > On 7/2/2025 3:50 PM, Andrew wrote:   
      
   >> "From my earliest training as a scientist I was very strongly   
   >> brainwashed to believe that science cannot be consistent with any kind   
   >> of deliberate creation. That notion has had to be painfully shed. I am   
   >> quite uncomfortable in this situation, the state of mind I now find   
   >> myself in. But there is no logical way out of it. I now find myself   
   >> driven to this position by logic. There is no other way in which we   
   >> can understand the precise ordering of the chemicals of life except to   
   >> invoke the creations on a cosmic scale. . . We were hoping as   
   >> scientists that there would be a way round our conclusion, but there   
   >> isn't."            ~ Sir Frederick Hoyle and Chandra   
   Wickramsinghe,   
      
   > Was Professor Hoyle an atheist?   
      
   The earth being seeded with life, usually by nature (panspermia) but   
   also by aliens, is at least as legitimate as abiogenesis.   
      
   I personally don't find it a very satisfactory answer because life   
   would still have an origins, just not here, so it presents more   
   questions than it answers. Still, "Not liking" a hypothesis is by no   
   means a falsification, and it is AT LEAST as equally valid an idea   
   as abiogenesis...   
      
      
      
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