Maybe a great deal! How would we know unless we did more research?

And, really, 1 megabuck isn't going to do a hell of a lot of research.
The question of the chemical origin of life is not particularly
important anyway. Even if we spent terrabucks on it, we would not come
near exhausting the chemical and physical combinations that are
possible as conditions initiatating of the chemical phase of evolution.
But we might make some really important chemical discoveries the
spinoffs of which might pay for the whole thing.

Agki

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:33:52 GMT, in alt.atheism , "Roger"
<rogerfx@hotmail.com> in
<A4%Le.2439$Hn3.1738@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net> wrote:

What a waste of money.

What will $1 million find that hasn't been found in 150 years of research?

I agree. Unfortunately I forget when it was that research stopped
producing anything of value. Was it this year? Last year? Please tell
us what year it was when research in biology stopped being of any
value.

Roger wrote:

What a waste of money.

What will $1 million find that hasn't been found in 150 years of
research?

Weapons of Mass Destruction?


Oops, wrong subject.

"Kurt Nicklas" <kurtnicklas@aport2000.ru> wrote in message
news:ddpsrt01192@drn.newsguy.com...

Harvard Jumps Into Evolution Debate Sun Aug 14, 9:33 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050815/ap_on_sc/harvard_evolution;_ylt=Auc0csbLibvvv3MEx9hRBQas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM-


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University is joining the long-running debate
over
the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life
began.

The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from
Harvard
over the next few years. The project begins with an admission that some
mysteries about life's origins cannot be explained.

"My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple
series
of logical events that could have taken place with no divine
intervention," said
David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard.

The "Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative" is still in its early
stages,
scientists told the Boston Sunday Globe. Harvard has told the research
team to
make plans for adding faculty members and a collection of
multimillion-dollar
facilities.

Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over
millions
of years. It has been standard in most public school science texts for
decades
but recently re-emerged in the spotlight as communities and some states
debated
whether school children should also be taught about creationism or
intelligent
design.

The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to
have
developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a
hand
in creation.

Harvard has not been seen as a leader in origins of life research, but
the
university's vast resources could change that perception.

"It is quite gratifying to see Harvard is going for a solution to a
problem that
will be remembered 100 years from now," said Steven Benner, a University
of
Florida scientist who is one of the world's top chemists in
origins-of-life
research.


--
Kurt Nicklas
"I'm stating truths, not making an
argument."
---Scott Erb (scotterb@worldnet.att.net)

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