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What "close correspondence"? Are you talking about how the observed CMB seems impossible according to present models? (Without, at least, introducing completely ad hoc pretzel-twists into the same?) In any case, I think Mark is asking whether abiogenesis without "help" is a reasonable belief.
– Matthew
Commented May 27 at 20:22
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@Matthew: No, I'm talking about the entirely more prosaic fact that the CMB looks strikingly like a redshifted black-body radiation curve, and the amount of redshift matches up really, really well with what has been modeled. As for "without help" - that falls under methodological naturalism. Science does not assert that the explanation must necessarily be natural. It merely asserts that investigating natural phenomena subjectively appears to be a better use of scientists' time. You can't tell people that they're wrong about something like that.
– Kevin
Commented May 27 at 22:35
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Solid answer. It's not obvious, but the original question is fundamentally about the definition of "bio-" and "life", and this answer gets closest to pointing out how any definition of "life" has to contend with the universe starting out lifeless.
– Corbin
Commented May 28 at 2:36

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