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“The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.”

World Earth Stage Origin Of Life Hypothetical Rna

Author:Sidney Altman

“Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.”

Giving Dies Design Machines Accounts Intelligent Code Intelligent Design Origin Of Life Painless Bios Assemblage

Author:William A. Dembski

“Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.”

Way Humans Happens Asks Human Beings Answers Attitude Opinion Produce Fundamentals Rounds After Death Origin Of Life

Author:Umberto Eco

“The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.”

Thinking Self Form Life Is Process Known Records Bases Observation Consistent Constructs Fossils Straightforward Plausible Factual Origin Of Life

Book:The origin of life

Source: The origin of life

“A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain doesn't mean a big jet of water. It means humidity, the origin of life.”

Mean Littles Bigs Sound Water Memories Cities Mountain Rivers Marvelous Fountain Jet Origin Of Life Humidity

Author:Jaume Plensa

“There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.”

“Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.”

Stories Support Theory Scientist Plenty Scenarios Conjecture Origin Of Life

Author:Paul Davies

“[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.”

Years Two Happens Science Certain Order Given Waiting Impossible Generations Events Miracle Regard Billions Spontaneous Improbable Origin Of Life Impossible Becomes Possible

Author:George Wald