MikeS Wrote:
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> A couple of months back I left the company I had
> worked at for three and a half years (I'm not
> advertising them here ) and as a leaving present,
> knowing my love of Sci-fi, astonomy and science
> one of their presents was a booked called 'Origins
> of Existence' by Fred Adams.
>
> Though this book doesn't forcus on evolution, in
> the sense that it is regularly argued on here, it
> DOES focus on how life emerged both on Earth and
> possibly in the universe. I found it a highly
> informative book and would recomend it...
> particularly to those who can't cope with the
> concept that life came from ever more complex
> chains of molecules (no names mentioned!), and
> think it just appeared pooof out of thin air.
>


Yes well those who think it appeared "pooof out of thin air" are even worse than those who think the universe appeared "pooof out of thin air" But what about those that can't cope with the idea that the modern theory of evolution is based around a 'fitness landscape' where things like multicelular organisms and eyes are as good as inevitable ?

And what about those who can't cope with the idea that the formation of "ever more complex
chains of molecules" was something bound to happen with the way the universe is ? So much so that it started happening on the one planet we know about that could support it as soon as it was cool enough to support it.

And so on and so on and ariston....

Simon