[xzins]

When I took biology in High School we were all told that the lowest forms of life "evolved" from non-living matter. But since the conditions in which such an event occurred have been impossible to duplicate and since there have been significant challenges to that theory, the whole idea of abiogenesis appears to have been silently removed from the curriculum.

Exactly. What you describe is precisely what I was taught.

Remember them waxing eloquent about that "protein stew" and the lightening bolt?

I'm thinking of my recipe for "Stormy Day Bean Soup with Ham."

Lots of protein :>)

See #403

[P-Marlowe]

Remember them waxing eloquent about that "protein stew" and the lightening bolt?

Yup, and when they were done with the experiment they would serve up the soup in the cafeteria along with creamed corn and warm milk.

I think we are dating ourselves here x.

[PatrickHenry]

It all fits together: Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Jefferson (a metaphor for all of the Founding Fathers) are the three great philosophical sources of our present freedom. Free unguided markets (no Dark Ages guilds and state monopolies), free unguided evolution (no creationism), and free people (no tyrannical monarchy).

I'm a Smith-Darwin-Jefferson conservative!