Origin of Life - Lecture by John Maynard Smith (1 of 6)

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A lecture by the late John Maynard Smith on the origin of life.

- Further Reading -
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life

- John Maynard Smith -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5719510285700008320
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Smith

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• Abiogenesis
• Origin
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• Life
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• Maynard
• Smith

[BrightlyEvolving]

Five hundred years from now when Christ and Muhammad and other prophets of ignorance have passed into obscurity Charles Darwin will still be hailed as the man who set us on the path towards the real God....... TRUTH

Christ walked on water but we have walked on the moon, Christ turned water into wine but we have taken the heart from one person and transplanted it to another. The real God is Greater than we have yet imagined!

All it takes is COURAGE to understand we control our own destiny.

[snylekkie]

Cause humans are so good at editing text, silly.

[hisnameisfrankie]

Some ppl will nvr change views, 'cause existing view comfortable with their psych. U just have to wait for some people to die and their ideas with them. Our children, however, will inherit a world less superstitious than ours, as has been the course of history. This is the gift humans pass along.

[hisnameisfrankie]

I no longer ponder the origin of life cuz it's a fool's debate. 500 years frm now, religion will be recognized for its contrib. to civiliz., bt it will b the scientific facts that will be held truth, just like every instance of religious assertion v provable scientific assertion in the past.

[zytigon]

Darwin's 'On the Origin of species' etc can be read free at Project Gutenberg org. For more on science & nature try books by top scientists Richard Dawkins, ' Unweaving the rainbow ' & ' The greatest show on earth ' & PZ Meyers , Victor Stenger, website Talkorigins, Try John C. Lennox V Peter Atikins debate on youtube. Also on Youtube BonoboBill, evidence of common ancestry: human chromosome 2. Also Ken Miller on Pariskillton. Also try reading about endogenous retrovirus & provirus.

[bozzeed]

@BrightlyEvolving if God haven't created you, you wouldnt have destiny.

[sbergman27]

@BrightlyEvolving What is truly remarkable is that our Darwin didn't show up until 1859. Darwin took something that should have been brain-dead obvious to people many generations previous, based upon the extant evidence, and spelled it out. I suspect that the same force which fuels irrational resistance to the fact of evolution today is what prevented anyone recognizing it previous to Darwin. I don't think that the force is religion, per se. But I do suspect that the same force fuels them both.

[alfahmau07]

This is the biggest ignorance talking about did you know that nothing there is nothing no to any of a thing can not find anything without a creator

[phazoe1804]

@BrightlyEvolving preach! ops i said preach, that mean i agree

[rlinfinity]

OMFG!!! Hovind's "Doctoral Dissertation" is available online. I jsut read that shit! WHAT TRIPE!... NO REFERENCES... NOTHING... NO EXPERIMENT... NO RHETORIC, mathematical proof or logical Arguments of ANY SORT!!! in it the idiot wails on Islam saying it sucks because the muslim notion of Gods allows people to believe in big bang and evolution.... apparently to this idiot that's a bad thing..... shite!

[benthemiester]

@aryah47 You mentioned evolution, that is why I brought up the modern synthesis.

I was speaking of abiogenesis. If you don't want to carry on a discussion I can respect that but why contact me if you wish not to carry on discussion?

[aryah47]

@benthemiester so, you think neodarwinian synthesis has a position about abiogenesis? Sry I hoped I was discussing with a non-fundamentalist, I have no intention of continuing this discussion further.