Posted by Chris on July 14, 1998 at 15:57:13:
In Reply to: BS posted by Walker on July 13, 1998 at 12:09:04:
: I wouldn't be surprised if it were pure bull based on my reading of the Ross probability at the same site. I didn't read the "Chemical Origin" thing; just included it as something that was more related to abiogenesis. I hope someone can provide something more credible.
: Chris recommended a book on this stuff, but I didn't write it down; was it by Shapiro?
That site really was bullshit. What the hell is "science of the gaps?"
Anyway, the book I mentioned earlier was "Origins," by Robert Shapiro, a chemist an NYU(?). I thought his criticisms of current abiogenesis theories were accurate and evenhanded; and Shapiro, an agnostic, doesn't try to muscle the reader into accepting a "God of the Gaps" just because current science hasn't found the answer to the origin of life.