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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
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Subject: Re: Perhaps probability
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 17:55:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 17:55:46 1984
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From Paul DuBois's latest:
a.
>>         If it's so easy to get these compounds together,
>> someone please submit references regarding their creation
>> (unfortunate word) in the laboratory from the raw materials.

b.
>> And also regarding what keeps them from decomposing as fast
>> as they arise.

a.
Cyril Ponnamperuma, at NASA, has created complex organics from
raw stuff.  I have no list of exact references, but his name is
a start.  If you find his articles, that should lead to references
to other researchers who've done likewise.  Astronomers have also
detected complex organics in meteors (ones that have landed on
earth) and in gas & dust clouds in space.  Of course, such arguments
can't override faith - god could have put those molecules there
for some reason (I've heard christians say `to test our faith').

b.
What keeps them from decomposing is the lack of organisms to decompose
them.  Read up on chemical equilibrium.