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Old 12-05-2005, 02:47 PM
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Default Is panspermia a scienctific theory?

I'm pleased to see support for my earlier insistance that panspermia is a scientific theory (in contrast to ID) in the fact that a summary of the status of this theory is in the current edition of "Scientific American".

To quote: "As we have show, panspermia is plausible theoretically. But, in addition, important aspects of the hypothesishave made the transition from plausibility to quantitative science".
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Old 12-06-2005, 01:34 AM
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I always thought it was a Pantera video-ic theory.
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Old 12-06-2005, 02:30 AM
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Heh, heh. You said "sperm."
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:41 AM
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still only a hypothesis at this point, and a tricky one to prove anyway. pretty good wikipedia article on it
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Old 12-06-2005, 07:10 AM
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I'm pleased to see support for my earlier insistance that panspermia is a scientific theory (in contrast to ID) in the fact that a summary of the status of this theory is in the current edition of "Scientific American".


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Ha, knew it. I've come to the conclusion that any explanation for anything, so long as God isn't involved, can be made scientific, even FSM.
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Old 12-06-2005, 05:34 PM
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I'm pleased to see support for my earlier insistance that panspermia is a scientific theory (in contrast to ID) in the fact that a summary of the status of this theory is in the current edition of "Scientific American".


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Ha, knew it. I've come to the conclusion that any explanation for anything, so long as God isn't involved, can be made scientific, even FSM.

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Explanations for God can be considered scientific; Christian Science, ID, etc. It's all in the eyes of the beholder.
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Old 12-06-2005, 05:36 PM
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still only a hypothesis at this point, and a tricky one to prove anyway. pretty good wikipedia article on it

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I agree. I was only saying it is a scientific hypothesis as opposed to a non-scientific hypothesis.
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Old 12-06-2005, 05:40 PM
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I'm pleased to see support for my earlier insistance that panspermia is a scientific theory (in contrast to ID) in the fact that a summary of the status of this theory is in the current edition of "Scientific American".


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Ha, knew it. I've come to the conclusion that any explanation for anything, so long as God isn't involved, can be made scientific, even FSM.

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LOL. But some God based hypotheses are testable as scientific theories. And what is FSM?..that one is lost on me.
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Old 12-06-2005, 10:43 PM
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And what is FSM?..that one is lost on me.


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Flying Spaghetti Monster. As in SETI, if you haven't found him yet, keep looking - the fact he hasn't shown up doesn't mean he isn't there. Now that's real science.
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Old 12-06-2005, 10:43 PM
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Who's calling FSM real science?
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