RE: Chemical Origin of Life
October 15, 2012 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2012 at 4:10 pm by Ryantology.)
Isn't it most honest, intellectually and spiritually, to assume no answer until one can be definitively determined? To take a mystery and make assumptions before any attempt is made to determine the facts with our physical tools is counterproductive and foolish.
Here is the one concession I'll ever make to the religious regarding any claims they make: the only time it is ever appropriate to do anything other than imagine supernatural influence in any matter involving the real world is after, and only after, any and all possible, conceivable methods of physical inquiry we can ever invent are thoroughly and rigorously tested and never produce an answer. Only when science is completely defeated, with zero possibility of error or alternative method, is a spiritual explanation permissible. To ever deviate from this, for any reason imaginable, is to take the human race backwards into barbarism of thought and action.
Here is the one concession I'll ever make to the religious regarding any claims they make: the only time it is ever appropriate to do anything other than imagine supernatural influence in any matter involving the real world is after, and only after, any and all possible, conceivable methods of physical inquiry we can ever invent are thoroughly and rigorously tested and never produce an answer. Only when science is completely defeated, with zero possibility of error or alternative method, is a spiritual explanation permissible. To ever deviate from this, for any reason imaginable, is to take the human race backwards into barbarism of thought and action.
