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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (256946)	10/24/2005 2:48:56 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575035

"Tell me how it all got started then, since science has pretty much discounted the old hypothesis of "spontaneous generation."" That is the theory of origins. There isn't any accepted theory at the moment. There has been some interesting work done with clay, but nothing really conclusive. And science doesn't speak, or more properly, shouldn't speak about the meaning of things. That is beyond its scope and is a philosophical or religious question. Yes, there are those who have made science their religion and promote that as Science, but that doesn't mean their view is any more valid than anyone else's.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (256946)	10/24/2005 3:19:12 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575035

since science has pretty much discounted the old hypothesis of "spontaneous generation." How so? Whatever the first step was it could be described as spontaneous. Step one probably had to play out many many times before step two was added. After all, life has been on this planet for 4 billion years, but for the first three billion it was very simple life. Complexity really didn't take off until there was variation via sex and not just mutation. TP

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (256946)	10/24/2005 3:22:49 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575035

Lot of scientists are looking into it, trying to reproduce the conditions. I watched one on "Scientific American Frontiers". One theory is that amino acids from comets combined on earth to create the first life. This guy had an automated experiment assembler that would combine various amino acids and other elements that would have been present in differing combinations and zap them with electricity, all at high speeds, postulating that lightning was part of the process. Then, he'd look for metabloites, indicating life. No luck for him so far..