Abiogenesis (Origins)

by dhw, Saturday, September 05, 2009, 11:50 (5368 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George has referred us to another article detailing research into abiogenesis.-Once again, many thanks for this reference. No doubt science will gradually come closer and closer to understanding how life began, but as usual the conclusion puts things in perspective:- Although Libchaber and Lehmann point out that the analysis certainly does 
 not provide a full picture of the problem, the work nonetheless brings us 
 one step closer to understanding how life first began. "The dream of 
 physicists is to create elementary life," Libchaber says. "Then we would 
 know that we understand something."-The problem for someone uncommitted like myself is that the more difficult these intelligent scientists find it to understand the code (and to fulfil their dream), the more difficult it is for me to believe that it could come into being by sheer chance in the first place. However, we've been over this point a hundred times, and I remain very grateful to you and David for continuing to update us. -Thank you also for pointing out the websites on brain research. I'll look into these in the next day or so.