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May 24, 2005
Derek Lowe on Intelligent Design
Derek Lowe points out that we can get around some of the biological arguments about the origins of life with some chemistry. And stinking meteorites.
This, to me, is one of the major stories of the last few decades. Starting hundreds of years ago, astronomy gradually moved the Earth out of its supposed spot in the center of the universe and placed it in the huge (and hugely strange) context of the universe that we now know. Now chemistry is moving us away from the view of life as a strange and precious anomaly - granted, perhaps, by a divine being? - to something that could be everywhere and may well start of its own accord. The building blocks are ubiquitous, and if you give them half a chance they start to stack themselves up.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 24, 2005 11:06 AM