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THEORY OF FAVORED the o ry of ev o lu tion from the out set.
RACES, THE Because as even ev o lu tion ists ad mit,
the struc ture of pro teins is so com -
—See Darwinism and Racism.
plex that the chan ces of their form -
ing by chance is prac ti cal ly ze ro.
PRIMORDIAL SOUP One of the most im por tant fig -
FANTASY, THE ures in this ar ea, the ge o chem ist
Jeffrey Bada from the San Diego
According to the the o ry of ev o lu -
Scripps Institute, wrote in the
tion, life emerged in the oceans be -
February 1998 edi tion of Earth mag -
tween 3.5 and 4 bil lion years ago in
a zine:
an en vi ron ment known as the "pri -
Today as we leave the twen ti eth cen tu -
mor di al soup." According to the
ry, we still face the big gest un solved
myth of ev o lu tion, prim i tive life be -
prob lem that we had when we en tered
gan with pro teins and sub se quent ly
the twen ti eth cen tu ry: How did life
with sin gle-celled or gan isms, and
orig i nate on earth? 189
con tin ued in the oceans for some 2
Professor Klaus Dose, head of the
bil lion years, reach ing its fi nal point
Johannes Gutenberg University
with the ev o lu tion of fish with back -
Biochemistry Department in
bones.
Germany, stat ed in the Journal
After that point, ac cord ing to the
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews:
tale, some of the fish felt the need to
More than 30 years of ex per i men ta tion
progress to a dry land en vi ron ment.
on the or i gin of life in the fields of
And thus it was that life on dry land
chem i cal and mo lec u lar ev o lu tion have
be gan.
led to a bet ter per cep tion of the im men -
This en tire ly fic tion al tale, based
si ty of the prob lem of the or i gin of life
on no ev i dence, ac tu al ly fa ces a sep -
on earth rath er than to its so lu tion. At
a rate di lem ma at ev ery dif fer ent
present all dis cus sions on prin ci pal
stage. First of all, how did the first
the o ries and ex per i ments in the field ei -
pro tein come in to be ing? And how, ther end in stale mate or in a con fes sion
even be fore that, did the ami no ac ids of ig no rance. 190
that com prise pro teins come in to be -
The claim put for ward by
ing and man age to add on to one an -
Darwinism, the re sult of the prim i -
oth er in an or dered man ner? These
tive lev el of sci ence in the 19th cen -
ques tions com plete ly un der mine the
tu ry, that a cell will spon ta ne ous ly
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