Existential Implications of Miller-Urey
Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds.
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Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds.
There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results.
“Abiogenesis” seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life.
In the 17th century, medical pioneer Sir William Harvey and Italian scientist Francesco Redi both proved the untenability of spontaneous generation.
Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms.