At 01:58 PM 11/22/00 -0500, DNAunion wrote:
Some interesting posts. I won't have time to look at
them in any detail for awhile. Let me just throw out
one comment now.
[...]
>"Interviewer: What about submarine vents as a source of prebiotic compounds?
Your presentation is very one sided. This issue has been debated quite
extensively in the literature with Miller and Bada being the main opponents
of the submarine vents.
Here are a few references I have (out of date probably) that present
both sides:
Fox, Sydney W. 1995, "Thermal Synthesis of Amino Acids
and the Origin of Life"_Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta_
59(6): 1213-1214.
Holm, Nils G. 1992, "Why are Hydrothermal Systems Proposed as
Plausible Environments for the Origin of Life?", _Origins
of Life and the Evolution of the Biosphere_, 22:5-14.
Joyce, G. 1988, "Hydrothermal Vents too Hot?", _Nature_, <334>:564.
Marshall, W.L. 1994, "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Amino Acids",
_Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta_, <58>:2099-2106.
Miller, S.L. and J.L. Bada, 1988, "Submarine Hot Springs and the Origin
of Life," _Nature_, <334>:609.
Miller,S.L. and J.L. Bada, 1991, "The origin of life did not take place in
submarine hot springs," _Eos Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union_,
72(suppl.), p. 59.
Nisbet, E.G. 1989. "Origin of Life," _Nature_ 337:23.
Shock, E.L. 1990, "Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of Organic
Compounds in Hydrothermal Systems," _Origin of Life and Evolution
of the Biosphere_, <20>:331-367, 1990.
Shock, E.L. 1992, "Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis Experiments," _Origin
of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere_, <22>:135-146.
Oh, one last question. What contribution did ID researchers make to
the results you have presented?
Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University
"One never knows, do one?"
-- Fats Waller
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