[backprojection]

> Because any other hypothesis has to explain why it violates the conservation of energy and matter.

This comment is so infuriating. I may not be a genius, but I did manage to eek out a degree in physics. I think I, and anyone here on HN should be given the benefit of the doubt that they can figurer out if energy conservation is being violated.

Simply from a principle of assuming that the person suggesting the hypothesis is not an _idiot_, you could infer that any of these alternative hypotheses do _not _ violate energy conservation.

[jacques_chester]

I have found myself arguing with people who took the view that the conservation of energy and matter does not apply to sufficiently complex biological systems.

I am quite serious.