What a cop-out!Then the discussion will be at an end. I asked if English was your second language because it was a neutral explanation for your writing style. I shall now work on the basis that you are well aware of what you are writing.
I do not sit idly by when someone engages in manipulative behaviour apparently because they sense they have lost the argument. I have not, I repeat not stated I am unable to defend my definition of alien life. I have stated that I currently lack the technical expertise to adequately defend one small portion of that definition in the specific way that you demand. That is quite a different matter and it is reprehensible of you to descend to such low tricks in such an obvious way.
When you are ready to continue the discussion in an honest and open manner, then I shall be happy to continue. In the meantime you might do a brief search on google scholar where you will find many peer reviewed documents addressing silicon lifeform metabolism. I imagine you will find plenty there you also disagree with. You are the one in this discussion who is taking a non-standard position. You are the one who needs to defend the notion that speculation about alien life is just an opinion. So I also expect such a defence from you before I rejoin.
All I get from this, is that because there are a bunch of nutters who write papers in crank journals and another group of mainstream scientists who write about the likelihood that all life is carbon based, (.. duh! ..), you think I’m being dishonest in my discussions with you?
Further, because you don’t recognise an argument based on an objective context, which leads to the conclusion that ’Alien life’, (eg: silicon based), has no more scientific substance than some episode of Star Trek, you accuse me of ‘manipulative behaviours’ and ‘low tricks’?
What a joke! You are no representative of science, my friend!
For thoughtful readers: the demonstrably scientific objective reality is:
'Any opinion, or inference taken solely from an objectively untestable model or definition, (either in principle or in theory), or a prediction not yet tested out, is a belief’, where 'a belief' is defined as: 'Any notion held as being true, for any reason'.
QED.
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