[xzins]

Astrobiologist David Deamer believes that life can spontaneously emerge without design, but he thinks lay people are too uneducated to understand how this is possible

Oh, goody.

Spontaneous generation.

We haven't discussed that in a long, long while.

:>)

[Alamo-Girl]

And for very good reason! LOLOL!

[betty boop]

Oh, goody.... Spontaneous generation.... We haven't discussed that in a long, long while.

Oh goody! Do you want to discuss it, xzins? LOLOL!

Many biologists today are pretty enthused about Tibor Ganti's chemoton model as a possible model of "spontaneous generation." This model evidently bottoms out in chemistry. Evidently this is what makes them so happy.

I haven't read Ganti's book, The Principles of Life, because I just can't afford it (it has a cover price of ~$180 — rather odd for a book that's allegedly "for specialists and non-specialists alike"). Guess I'll have to wait for the paperback.

But there is a good review of the book that grey_whiskers found, and he posted the link a couple weeks ago. The review (by Gert Korthof) purports to give a good overview of Ganti's criteria for life, potential life, death, and non-life, and a description of the chemoton model.

Who knows, it might be fun to discuss! Anyone???

Thanks for the ping, xzins!