Thinking About Falsifiability and Abiogenesis

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Ronald_Cram

Okay, so you admit that we don’t know the whole picture. That’s progress.

Are you kidding me? I said that right up front, two weeks ago.

@swamidass

Most every scientist recognizes that origin of life researchers have not solved the problem of how the first life came to be. An appeal to panspermia is really just kicking the can down the road.

Exactly. That is 100% true. That means we do not know how the first life arose. If you feel the need to believe God directly created the first cell, that is certainly reasonable, even though it is unattested to in Scripture (unlike e.g. the de novo creation of Adam). Nothing in science disputes that belief. Science is silent on God’s action. This is one of those mysterious places in origins were maybe God acted.

@Ronald_Cram, we’ve granted right up front that science does not know the whole story. It is not “progress” for @T.j_Runyon to reiterate what I said to you in literally my very first post addressed you. It might be progress that you are finally hearing us in some small way.