Not to quibble but,
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Originally Posted by Augi
We hit this topic starting here. We all ready discussed how observations, while speculation, are not the same as faith in something that is unproven, and may very well be unprovable. I should have been more clear when making this reference.
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All science, even speculative observations, are based on faith in unproven and unprovable. Yet we can still build airplanes.
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If by different you mean it was a different unstable isotope that somehow decayed to C<sup>12</sup>, then yes. But no, the universe would not allow for the physics that exist now to be different at any other point in time when matter has existed. Even the minutest change in the speed of light (what would that do?) would cause electrons to either crash into the nucleus of the atom or hurl themselves away from the nucleus - either a universe of neutrons or no molecules in the universe.
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Not that i think that you're necessarily wrong, but i don't see how you can claim from a scientific standpoint that the universe would not allow for matter to exist under a different set of laws of physics without presuming a certain understanding of the underlying rules (or lack thereof) governing the laws of physics that you can't possibly have.