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05/30/09
Origin of life: Speculation rents the "science" costume - leaves without head
by Denyse O'Leary
ARN correspondent
In Probability's nature and nature's probability: A call to scientific integrity, information scientist Donald E. Johnson tackles, among other things, the origin of life.
Johnson takes on the aimless speculation that characterizes so much consensus science today on such issues:
... one should not be able to get away with stating "it is possible that life arose from non-life by ..." without first demonstrating that it is indeed possible (defined in the nature of probability) using known science. One could, of course, state "it may be speculated that ...," but such a statement wouldn't have the believability that its author intends to convey by the pseudo-scientific pronouncement."(p. 5)I am so fed up with pseudoscientific pronouncements on the origin of life that I decided to cover all such stories at Colliding Universes blog, along with speculations about the end of the universe - rather than at Post-Darwinist, where many claims - whether well-supported or not - have at least some basis in fact..
This is a great book for scientists with a background in probability who want to understand why there is a controversy over design in the universe.
Also, today at Colliding Universes:
Particle physics: Do electrons have free will?
Origin of life: "Primordial soup" belief undermines traditional spirituality?
Cosmology: I seem to have yanked particle physicist Lawrence Krauss's chain
Coffee! Greatest sci-fi special effects
Colliding Universes is my blog on competing theories about our universe.
Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O'Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada's Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).
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