Origins: A skeptics guide to the creation of life on earth (Origins)

by xeno6696 , Omaha NE, Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 22:37 @ David Turell

C'mon David, saying that is like saying Aristotle's arguments and observations aren't dated. 24yrs is a VERY long time in science.

Except when there is no progress, other than learning what paths not to follow. His book is 35-40 years after the start of the quest for origin of life. If he wrote something now it would just be more negatives.

Well so far I'm through to the 3rd chapter; and his criticisms of the first two paradigms ring true on such "results" as this:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=how-did-life-begin-on-earth-2010-06-29

When you read the blog... it DOES read more like propaganda than a real scientific statement. However, so far--Shapiro has caused no "paradigm shift" in my own thinking. Though so far his skepticism in general is a mirror image of my own; continuously stating that we cannot say "x" is true if we really cannot know "x" is true, or have evidence "x" is true. He rightly shoves the "watch" argument right into the nethers where it belongs.

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