2019-02-24, 09:28 PM
I won't even pretend to have the knowledge necessary to say much, but figured it would be of interest to the ID folks:
An Open Letter to My Colleagues by James Tour
An Open Letter to My Colleagues by James Tour
Quote:We synthetic chemists should state the obvious. The appearance of life on earth is a mystery. We are nowhere near solving this problem. The proposals offered thus far to explain life’s origin make no scientific sense.
Beyond our planet, all the others that have been probed are lifeless, a result in accord with our chemical expectations. The laws of physics and chemistry’s Periodic Table are universal, suggesting that life based upon amino acids, nucleotides, saccharides and lipids is an anomaly. Life should not exist anywhere in our universe. Life should not even exist on the surface of the earth.