Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) Newsgroups: net.bio,net.origins,net.philosophy Subject: Re: The missing step -- self-reproducing organisms Message-ID: <1536@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 14:21:25 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.1536 Posted: Mon Nov 12 14:21:25 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 06:44:03 EST References: <> <2262@cornell.UUCP> Organization: Quadratix ... Quartix Lines: 11 Xref: sun net.bio:111 net.origins:495 net.philosophy:1144 An excellent book on this is A.E. Wilder Smith's _The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution_. He discusses the problem in detail**2. (I.e. he concentrates on the key points and works them to death.) It can be understood with an elementary background in biology and chemistry, although *really appreciating* would require a background in organic chemistry (more than what I have). -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.