At 08:45 PM 01/24/2000 +0000, glenn morton wrote:
>At 06:42 PM 1/24/00 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>>At 10:05 PM 01/22/2000 +0000, Glenn wrote:
>>>Over last weekend I finished reading THe Fifth Miracle by Paul Davies. It
>>>is a fascinating, popular level account of the search for the origin of
>>>life. He reports some fascinating information about RNA research which
>>>comes very close to creating life in the testtube. I will quote him at
>>length.
>>
>>This is a good example of what haoppens whe a physicist starts talking
>>about molecular biology. He doesn't have a clue.
>
>Give evidence not opinion. :-)
Robert Bateman has already done that insofar as your review is concerned.
His lack of understanding in this area is abysmal. This is not to say he
is not a great physicist. That is what he should be talking about. My
best friend here is a brilliant theoretical nuclear physicist. He is all
the time dabbling in biology. But he has no formal understanding of the
discipline, and makes great leaps of logic. I try to encourage him to
stick to physics.
Art
http://geology.swau.edu
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