[Remedy]

Chapter 7 Thermodynamics of Living Systems, p113

Chapter 8 Thermodynamics and the Origin of life, p127

Chapter 9 Specifying How Work is to be Done, p144

[Ichneumon]

Chapter 7 Thermodynamics of Living Systems, p113
Chapter 8 Thermodynamics and the Origin of life, p127
Chapter 9 Specifying How Work is to be Done, p144

Twaddle dressed up with lots of equations and big words to make it sound impressive. But it's all a fraud. Check out the end of chapter 8, for example:

This trivial yield emphasizes the futility of protein formation under equilibrium conditions.

Well sure, but a pre-biotic world would not be at "equilibrium conditions", so the whole chapter is irrelevant. Sure looks purty though, don't it?