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Originally Posted by Patricia
A statement about the remote past cannot be 100% verified. (We can't go back in time to confirm the hypothesis.) However, some hypotheses can be shown to be better founded than others. Dawkins's caution is entirely consistent with scientific method and shows (to my mind) a refreshing humility and intellectual honesty. No one on Earth does know how life began....
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Hear, hear.
We have, however, taken another step toward better understanding of the process, by successfully creating synthetic self-replicating RNA:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...catingrna.html
Oh, and also, deep down, we are all sponges
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/0...sils-life.html
Even if some Bronze Age herders believed we were fashioned out of dirt, or a blood clot.