re: Amino acids (fwd)

Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:15:32 -0800

>"For more than a decade, Cairns-Smith has been pushing his own hypothesis.
>Like Wachtershauser, he proposes that life arose on a solid substrate that
>occurs in vents and almost everywhere else, but he prefers crystaline
>clays to pyrite." p 123
>
>These are the main alternates proposed, and each camp disagrees with some
>portion of anothers assumptions. This is to be expected, especially
>considering the loose understanding that we have about the early earth
>atmosphere. However, nowhere in the article does divine intelligence
>appear.
>
>Onto some other postings.
>
>-- R Jason Valentine ..ooOO miracle@procyon.com

Aubrey
Take those theories of Wachtershauser and Cairns-Smith to the lab and see if
they work.
If they dont' they have a problem.

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