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21 Post author: Douglas_Knight 05 April 2014 11:10PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 April 2014 06:02:46PM 5 points [-]

If anything, it seems the opposite to me. The biogenic theory is about swamps that only occurred in particular places in particular geologic periods, whereas the abiogenic theory, though I did not say, is about a continual process uniform through space and time, except for variation in the porosity of rock, especially capstones, a particularity that is shared with the other theory.

The Germanic founders of quantum mechanics did invoke Idealism, and the Soviets criticized them for it, but this was quite explicit.