>>Hard science is physics, chemistry. 1 1=2.Hard science. Biology is soft science because there is no smoking gun. I am going to look up this Harry Greene fella and see who is paying for his research...etc..>>

Of course I disagree with that blanket statement. There is a lot of stuff in physics that cannot be falsified. How can you falsify string theory for example? How do you falsify the existence of extra dimensions, which are predicted by string theory? By definition, beings that exist in a world with n dimensions are trapped in that world, and they are unable to experience or even comprehend a world with n 1 or greater numbers of dimensions. So, by definition, the extra dimensions predicted by string theory cannot be falsified by human beings. That is hardly "hard science."

Speaking of physics, physicists have demonstrated the existence of neutrinos, the so-called ghost particle, by observation. As elusive as the neutrino is, it seems that evidence to support the hypothesis that the tricolored pattern of the kingsnake frightens predators is even more elusive. That is because the neutrino has been observed, but no one has ever observed a predator, upon observing the tricolor pattern of a harmless kingsnake in nature, became frightened and then left the kingsnake alone. I think the more appropriate name for the coral snake mimicry hypothesis is the phantom hypothesis because the coral snake mimicry hypothesis exists only in the minds of its believers.

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