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Harvard Origin of Life Initiative, a Orgueil Déjà Vu

February 19th, 2012

Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species gave scant attention to origin of life issues. Only in the last paragraph of the book that Darwin suggests that life was “originally breathed by the Creator”

Privately, in a letter to Joseph D. Hooker in February 1871 Darwin alternatively speculated that life might have actually originated in “some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes”. Continue Reading

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