(January 23, 2014 at 12:55 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: This is a more in depth version of the article that Kichi posted. It is very interesting, novel idea. If the research pans out, it could be a very simple, (Occam would be proud), very cogent hypothesis for the non-biological origins of life, i.e. 'that's just what matter does given the conditions on the primordial earth.' Thermodynamics, bitches.
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/...ry-of-life
But now some clever theists might use this new theory as a corroboration for the idea that the laws of nature were perfectly fine tuned for our creation, the fine tuner being God.

Interesting research, nonetheless.