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>SJ
>It is not generally realised that the naturalistic origin of life
>assumption is
>really a return to the old spontaneous generation hypothesis, as Wald
>pointed out (see tagline)
Chris
So, you are equating the following?
1. A theory that says that maggots spontaneously arise in refuse that was
thrown out a day or two earlier.
2. A theory that says that, over a period of perhaps many millions of
years, on a planet where there *was* no refuse, the evolution of molecules
via trillions and trillions of autocatalytic replications eventually gave
rise to an autocatalytic set of molecules that could actually actively take
in and use energy (i.e., that were alive).
Wow! What a stupendous equation.
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