Re: Op-Ed: Scientific study requires sound methodology

jgrisham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

So, since "evolution does not examine the origin of life" (as stated
above), it should be perfectly acceptable to all evolutionists that
that origin could be attributed to a Creator, Intelligent Design or,
even, Puff the Magic Dragon.

No.

It is true that the discipline of plumbing does not examine the shape
of the Earth. It does not follow that "it is perfectly acceptable to
all plumbers that the earth could be flat, hemispherical, or
lozenge-shaped", because all plumbers also know some number of facts
that are not strictly within the discipline of plumbing; many of them
are at least casually conversant with the body of evidence that
conclusively shows that the earth is round.

Most people who study evolution have *some* amount of knowledge or
opinion related to the various hypotheses of abiogenesis, and it is
perfectly fine that they do. They simply do not *necessarily* ascribe
to one or another of those hypotheses, and they are not necessarily
experts on the data supporting or challenging these hypotheses. Most
evolutionary biologists, though, would agree that the abiogenetic
process, whatever it was, is explainable in naturalistic terms.

eyelessgame

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