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Thread #136154 Message #3116583
Posted By: Amos
18-Mar-11 - 03:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Got Science?
Subject: RE: BS: Got Science?
There's a good deal of speculation concerning basic life mechanisms arising from non-organic silicates, clays and the like under certain conditions. Dawkins goes into this in some interesting detail. And life has been generated from non-organic elements inlaboratory experiments thought to simulate possible conditions early in the planetary history. Don't have the reference to hand, sorry.
But that doesn't mean it happened that way, or thatr there were no other factors in play. Or even that it happened on Earth.