[hutzlibu]

"Reproducible, testable science demonstrates that in the primordial oceans, self-replicating molecules which were slightly better at self-replicating produced globules of matter capable of inheritance."

Hang on. Are you implying that science created artifical life from just elements? Because that would be news to me.

[michaelmrose]

We don't understand how abiogenesis happened exactly but we do know that electricity from lightning is liable to be able to produce amino acids from simpler chemicals and we have theories as to how the early earth would have been amenable to such formation in a way the current earth is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment

Given the history of shamanistic figures explaining the natural world in terms of magical spirits and having magical definitions replaced with natural ones thousands of years one can perhaps be forgiven for concluding that the original of life was just another domino waiting to fall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

[mensetmanusman]

This is interesting, but it also says nothing about fine-tuning, which is likely outside the realms of the scientific method.

[michaelmrose]

Why is it outside of the scientific method? Speculate based on the other things we know about the universe, devise way of test theory, rinse repeat.

[mensetmanusman]

By definition, you can propose theories that are untestable. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/

[michaelmrose]

You would need to prove all theories that describe the beginning of life on earth will be untestable.

[mensetmanusman]

Sure, I’m alluding more towards, for example, the existence of hydrogen itself versus the beginning of life on earth which comes much later.