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Drake Equation, Abiogenesis and Aliens
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<blockquote data-quote="FrumiousBandersnatch" data-source="post: 76002787" data-attributes="member: 241055"><p>That simply doesn't follow. As I said, research takes time; the fact that we don't yet have definitive answers for many problems under study doesn't mean there are insurmountable barriers to getting those answers.</p><p></p><p>Results don't happen instantaneously. Most research programs have a staged approach where there is a planned step-by-step progression. At a building lot, you'd look pretty silly if you pointed at house foundations being laid and told the builders there are clearly insurmountable barriers to building that house otherwise they'd have finished it by now...</p><p></p><p>That's possible; we don't yet know.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, the more research that's been done on this, the more complex systems we've discovered that self-assemble, and the clearer it has become that the availability of free energy drives the development of complexity; so I'd say there is increasing confidence that a plausible route will be discovered.</p><p></p><p>It's also worth remembering that there was an entire planetful of varying environments with all the necessary resources and millions of years for complex chemistry and chance to play out. Of course, there's also the Anthropic Principle.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and the argument from incredulity is fallacious...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrumiousBandersnatch, post: 76002787, member: 241055"] That simply doesn't follow. As I said, research takes time; the fact that we don't yet have definitive answers for many problems under study doesn't mean there are insurmountable barriers to getting those answers. Results don't happen instantaneously. Most research programs have a staged approach where there is a planned step-by-step progression. At a building lot, you'd look pretty silly if you pointed at house foundations being laid and told the builders there are clearly insurmountable barriers to building that house otherwise they'd have finished it by now... That's possible; we don't yet know. Well, the more research that's been done on this, the more complex systems we've discovered that self-assemble, and the clearer it has become that the availability of free energy drives the development of complexity; so I'd say there is increasing confidence that a plausible route will be discovered. It's also worth remembering that there was an entire planetful of varying environments with all the necessary resources and millions of years for complex chemistry and chance to play out. Of course, there's also the Anthropic Principle. Oh, and the argument from incredulity is fallacious... [/QUOTE]
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