While watching a back episode of Nova last night they discussed this fellow and his brilliant idea to mix organic chemicals in a different order.
http://www.dhushara.com/book/bchtm/suth/sutherland.htm
Who needs fucking god?
http://www.dhushara.com/book/bchtm/suth/sutherland.htm
Quote:An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago.
He has solved a problem that for 20 years has thwarted researchers trying to understand the origin of life - how the building blocks of RNA, called nucleotides, could have spontaneously assembled themselves in the conditions of the primitive earth. The discovery, if correct, should set researchers on the right track to solving many other mysteries about the origin of life. It will also mean that for the first time a plausible explanation exists for how an information-carrying biological molecule could have emerged through natural processes from chemicals on the primitive earth.
Who needs fucking god?
