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The Stairway to Life

An Origin-of-Life Reality Check

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By: Change Laura Tan, Rob Stadler
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Spontaneous generation of living organisms - life arising without progenitor or seed - was a common belief in the time of Aristotle. Over the next 2,000 years, support for spontaneous generation slowly retreated to its final stronghold: spontaneous formation of the first living organism.

From recently acquired insights into the complexity of the simplest organisms, Tan and Stadler specify requirements for spontaneous formation of life and evaluate the prospects for natural processes to satisfy these requirements. The Stairway to Life is a thought-provoking inquiry that breaches the final stronghold of spontaneous generation.

©2020 Rob Stadler (P)2021 Rob Stadler Biological Sciences Biology Evolution Evolution & Genetics Science Natural History

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Amazing

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I plan to listen to this book again and I may even buy the paper copy. I would like to walk back through each chapter and educate myself on the science as I go. Admittedly, much of the information was new to me and I did not understand everything. Still, the scientific evidence presented is insurmountable. I knew enough to get that point from the book. It is a shame that smart people have completely closed their eyes to the absolute impossibility of abiogenesis. There is no harm in admitting that we did not spring from a cosmic mud puddle. We are smarter than that… might it be that we owe our origin to an intelligent designer? Even the rebound atheist, Antony Flew was willing to admit that.

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One of the last chapters sounds like it needs some editing though. I hope more people will take a listen. The universe is insanely complex and so is life.
And this will help you appreciate it a little more.

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science vs. fiction masquerade as science. highly recommended.
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true science

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