Oldboy: Aha, I see what you mean! Yes, you're totally right. If Filippenko had claimed that "the Big Bang required a divine spark" (i.e., reported speech), then the "and" would be mandatory before...
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Oldboy: Aha, I see what you mean! Yes, you're totally right. If Filippenko had claimed that "the Big Bang required a divine spark" (i.e., reported speech), then the "and" would be mandatory before...
Oh, since the continuous "was speaking" is used, I can guess that the full context was something like: "He was speaking at the SETI conference, during a panel discussion about the Big Bang, when a...
In this case, using the conjunction "and" or not using it is NOT merely a "question of style" -- in fact, it gives the sentence quite a different meaning.
With the "and", it would generally be...
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