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by deadbeeves 1057 days ago
This isn't a place to make formal scientific inquiry, and that's not the way to ask scientific questions formally. The way to do that is to write a paper to a journal citing findings that appear to contradict whatever hypothesis is in dispute.

If you ask a question about science to a random person on the Internet they're entirely within their right to say "I don't think you actually want to learn something you don't know, I think you're asking your question to put forward an argument that I've seen many people before you put forward and that I'm tired of hearing, and therefore I'm not going to humor you by answering your question", until you convince them that talking to you isn't a complete waste of time.

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Let me make it clear: OoL science has not answered the question of OoL. There are enormous gaping holes in the story. Asking about these holes, or pointing them out, is allowed. Pretending OoL has filled in these holes when it has not, and bullying those who ask the questions, questioning their motives, is not.
First of all, we will probably never know how life originally started, because it was a process at the molecular level that happened billions of years ago. Even if we found a chemical chain that leads to life, we would have no way to know if that particular one is the one that led to current life.

Second, anyone can ask any questions they like and anyone can answer or not any questions they like. No one is obligated to engage with you just because you asked a question. Actually, if someone tells you that they think you're asking your question in bad faith that's a courtesy they're having towards you, because they're giving you the chance to convince them that you're actually being sincere. They could have simply ignored you and gone on with their day.

Asking questuon without cost and put nothing into effort to work toward an answer is not doing science.