Scientific proof doesn't exist: another essay on point (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, November 27, 2017, 18:11 (2552 days ago) @ dhw

QUOTE: "So don't try to prove things; try to convince yourself. And be your own harshest critic and your own greatest skeptic. Every scientific theory will someday fail, and when it does, that will herald a new era of scientific inquiry and discovery. [...]

DAVID’s comment: A great reminder. And should put to rest ridiculous theories like multiverse.

dhw: You could hardly have more solid support for agnosticism, or scepticism concerning all theories purporting to explain the origin of the universe and life. These include the big bang, multiverse, string theory, abiogenesis, monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, panpsychism, chance. I must confess, though, I am reluctant to include “common descent” in the list. Tony would certainly shake his head at me!

DAVID: Recent discoveries I've provided suggest that common descent is from several beginnings of life, not one type cell!!

dhw: What difference does that make? The article tells us to be sceptical of all the theories. I agree. But not even your arch enemy Darwin claimed that all life necessarily descended from one type cell: “...this view of life…having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one”.

Why drag Darwin's late comment in later editions into this thread? I was simply pointing out new evidence that the pyramid of life may have more than one top.