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Originally Posted by KevinJ
And you know this because you have been to every planet in the universe? What we 'know' about chemistry and physics is based solely on what we can observe on OUR planet and has no bearing on anything else in existence. Your argument is specious at best.
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That position is quite simply a denial of the possibility of science. Every major scientific theory goes from one specific set of observations or experiments to a universal assertion that is applied to things that have not yet been observed. Making such leaps to generalization is the only reason we have scientific predictions that can then be tested against further observation.
Bill Stoddard