"Thomas H. Faller" <faller@sgi.com> wrote in message news:<4162DAF7.83FE1EE3@sgi.com>...
Y'all:
I'm getting ready to take a three week sabbatical, courtesy of my company, and
I'd like to do a little light research on the current state of abiogenesis research.
I'm somewhat restricted to the local university science libraries; I've
already scoped them out and have found much more info there than I could read
in a few weeks, although finding current stuff was kind of difficult. I'd like
to know if anyone has some suggestions for recent books or journals dealing
with abiogenesis research that they'd recommend for a reader with some
chemistry and biology background and the ability to widely misunderstand
technical jargon. ;-) I'd prefer printed material to online references in most
cases just to keep the research from turning into a list of references.
I recommend the book _Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary
Models Face Off_ by Fazale Rana & Hugh Ross (USA: NavPress, 2004),
298pp. The book is highly-detailed with many references; states Rana
on 18, "we don't want to oversimplify, because those who expect a high
level of proof deserve to get it." Some information about the book
appears at
http://www.reasons.org/resources/products/origins_of_life/index.shtml?main
phrase "spontaneous generation" used by Haeckel, Wald, Barrow &
Tipler, and Dawkins
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=dford3-b1c67abe.0408230552.47df9705%40posting.google.com
Oparin and spontaneous generation
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0407260934.6c061bf0%40posting.google.com
to all IDiots: simply collect the dirt and look in the box
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0407281853.53226b90%40posting.google.com
belief in spontaneous generation, blindwatchmaking, and mental
spoon-bending is scientific; 1933 Engels; 1940 Haldane on the origin
of life and the year 2040 or thereabouts
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0401291120.41a6d843%40posting.google.com
how do blindwatchmakingists "know" that life came from
non-life via non-intelligence-directed processes?:
Haeckel; Goodrich; Wells, J. Huxley, & Wells;
Simpson; Sagan; Dawkins; Johnson (a creationist)
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.990812214926.974808E-100000%40umbc8.umbc.edu
summary of portion of Wald article on spontaneous generation
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.4.44L.01.0310021326030.23080-100000%40linux3.gl.umbc.edu
Wald, Haeckel on spontaneous generation
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.980903003951.13619B-100000%40umbc9.umbc.edu
Joyce, Wald, Simpson, Dose, about Thaxton (a creationist)
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.990811214247.4395286C-100000%40umbc9.umbc.edu
Gould, Davies, Yockey, Thaxton (a creationist)
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.990510174524.238430A-100000%40umbc8.umbc.edu
1915 Bateson: "when we hear the spontaneous formation of formaldehyde
mentioned as a possible first step in the origin of life we think of
Harry Lauder in the character of a Glasgow schoolboy pulling out his
treasures from his pocket-- 'That's a wassher-- for makkin' motor
cars.'"
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0403212032.3307549e%40posting.google.com
1995 Yockey on the Grand Academy of Lagado
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0402032212.46bef779%40posting.google.com
1992 Hubert Yockey on clearing the decks of failed paradigms
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0402142006.7024a6f4%40posting.google.com
1983 Russell F. Doolittle on origin of life on earth: developed in
stages/evolved; 1959 Julian Huxley: "all aspects of reality are
subject to evolution"
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.95.970802094315.27893C-100000%40umbc9.umbc.edu
1991 John Horgan; 1999 Paul Davies, 1992 Hubert Yockey, & 1968 Michael
Polanyi: [Davies]"life cannot be 'written into' the laws of physics"
presently known
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0402152147.31e8cc6f%40posting.google.com
origin of life thoughts
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.91.960702214621.21174A-100000%40umbc10.umbc.edu
Davies, National Academy of Sciences, Dawkins, Feynman
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.990511230015.1040149B-100000%40umbc9.umbc.edu
Crick, Hearn & Hendry, Eiseley
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.4.44L.01.0310170026050.13465-100000%40linux2.gl.umbc.edu
Julie T. (a creationist) on an irrelevant "abiogenesis" paper
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.4.44L.01.0307231113280.765971-100000%40irix2.gl.umbc.edu
Hoyle's Boeing 747 illustration
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.4.10A.B3.9911112150170.459922-100000%40umbc9.umbc.edu
Hoyle was an intelligent design person
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.4.21L.01.0008260947160.377959-100000%40irix1.gl.umbc.edu
Behe's multi-lane highway and cake analogies
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.91.960827235401.10895D-100000%40umbc9.umbc.edu
amount of time for origin of life
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.91.960716004349.25182J-100000%40umbc8.umbc.edu
I can't promise that I'll get anything coherent out of this. My first attempt
a few weeks ago left me feeling like a freshman again, but if I get enough to
put together a "where we are now" paper, I'll give selected volunteers first
shot at pointing out my errors and shortcomings. Thanks in advance.
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