Understanding what life is, however, requires more
than hypotheses about the triggering circumstances that released it in the first place.
The hypothesis is going to take several posts to unfold, and since it is little more
than a hypothesis at this point, I doubt that I can answer all questions or make this hypothesis fit nicely into all texts.
One can argue that no hypothesis has any value without proof, but surely the hypothesis that we were created by intelligent live in another dimension holds more
value than the hypothesis that we were created by an evil deity with a predilection for infanticide and his magic carpenter son.
Making no assumption about spectrum is 3 times closer to our observed
temperature than the hypothesis which confounds spectrum, a specific extreme spectrum, and total irradiance.
Just ask Pope John Paul II: «New findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as
more than a hypothesis.
As recently as 1996 the pope stated that evolution was «more
than a hypothesis,» as long as one accepts that God intervenes to create the soul.
When we speak of the self - subsistent finitude of the secular myth we mean something very different from that working hypothesis which, since it is no more
than a hypothesis, does at least theoretically leave open the door for the idea of transcendence.
Careful reflection will demonstrate that it is more
than an hypothesis, it is something that must be so.
The hypothesis that the brain creates consciousness, however, has vastly more evidence for
it than the hypothesis that consciousness creates the brain.