Contents: 1) Crisis in the Chemistry of Origins. 2) The Theory of Biochemical Evolution. 3) Simulation of Prebiotic Monomer Synthesis. 4) The Myth of the Prebiotic Soup. 5) Reassessing the Early Earth and Its Atmosphere. 6) Plausibility and Investigator Interference. 7) Thermodynamics of Living Systems. 8) Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life. 9) Specifying How Work Is to Be Done. 10) Protocells. 11) Summary and Conclusion.
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I recently finished reading this book and was impressed. The authors were well-informed on the topic and cited more than 100 references. They dealt with the various scientific proposals on how life got started on Earth and very effectively pointed out their strengths and failures. They summarized the results of many scientific experiments and discussed how those experiments compare with what we know about the early Earth and how the experiment reflects the intelligent experimenter's interference. They dealt with the philosophical basis of scientific inquiry and showed how scientist are generally unwilling to face their basic assumptions, thereby failing to accept the implications of the limitation of all current research. At the end the authors confessed that they, too, had been under these assumptions until the evidence forced them to recognize the limitations of those assumptions and accept where the evidence is leading. I recommend this book for all those with scientific interest and especially those who believe that there is a natural explanation for everything. The book will give scientifically valid data and support for alternative views. It is very enlightening and very well researched and written.
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By Jonathan
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For 15 years, this book has been the first that I recommend for colleagues and friends wishing to evaluate the validity of evolution. Its value is that it focuses in ample detail on just one single, critical step in evolution: getting from non-life to life. The book describes work by 4 researchers who attempted to find the mechanism that led to the evolution of the first proto-cell. The authors detail their attempts to find this mechanism that would work against the known processes which the first step in biological evolution would have had to surmount (such as entropy). Each researcher brought a different expertise to the work, so the book is able to bring a number of perspectives to bear on this one relatively narrow issue.
This is not a book for individuals with merely secondary-school maths, biology or chemistry knowledge. The further one has studied in those disciplines (university, post-graduate), the better able he will be to appreciate the research.
This is not a book for individuals with merely secondary-school maths, biology or chemistry knowledge. The further one has studied in those disciplines (university, post-graduate), the better able he will be to appreciate the research.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By T. Kennedy
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This book offers an excellent scientific analysis of important data related to the theory of evolution. I have a degree in Applied Physics from Georgia Tech but portions of this book were over my head. Having said that, a vast majority of the book was intellectually stimulating and raised some very real questions about evolution theory that are often ignored and left unanswered. College professors need to read this book in order to have a balanced view of the different theories regarding the origin of life. This book is NOT a theological book and does not promote religion. It is scientific to the core and extremely compelling. I highly recommend it to the scientific community and other interested persons.
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This is a response to the review By Tom Sullivan (York, PA):
Using terminology like the following does not encourage open and honest debate. Read more
Using terminology like the following does not encourage open and honest debate. Read more
Published on March 5, 2011 by montevan
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Cybernetics.
I will simply say,the most daunting problem with a naturalistic standpoint on the origin of life is the impossibility of self-organization of physical elements into a formal... Read more
Published on December 30, 2009 by John Gagliardi
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Difficult to understand, but essential to read
The authors are distinguished scientists holding advanced degrees in chemistry, materials science, and geochemistry. Read more
Published on December 9, 2006 by Barbara L. Lemaster
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A Classic, yet Accessible Scientific Treatise on the Deficiencies of...
A seminal work for the theory of intelligent design, this book provides a scientific critique of the prevailing paradigmatic theories of chemical evolution. Read more
Published on June 21, 2006 by Discovery Reviewer
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The previous review must be bogus.
He writes and I quote, "Only a moron would accept that as "proof," and yet ID-iot Christians are more than happy to accept exactly that kind of "proof" from ID-iotic films like... Read more
Published on December 12, 2005 by R. Goulet
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Seminal intelligent design book
The book doesn't focus on Darwinism. It focuses on the origin of life, something that had to happen before the Darwinian mechanism could even begin to work. Read more
Published on September 9, 2005 by Jonathan Witt
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Having read the book
Having read the book, and seeing the reviews, I figured I should put my vote in. This book is excellent.
Published on August 27, 2005 by John Hollander
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I doubt that review Tom Sullivan even read the book
Reviewer Tom Sullivan has a nearly word-for-word identical review of the video The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories. Read more
Published on August 10, 2005 by E. Cobb
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There's a sucker born every minute
This book is an excellent example of how creationists approach science: write a book with a lot of bafflegab that sounds scientific but is actually devoid of any meaningful... Read more
Published on August 3, 2005 by Tom Sullivan
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