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Old 04-01-2008, 12:46 PM
David Bailey David Bailey is offline
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Open Mind,

Thanks for that reference. Here is a summary of the contents of Martin's book:

The End of Materialism by Graham Duncan Martin

Unfortunately (unless I have misunderstood the argument) it seems to be marred by the old idea that Darwinian evolution is impossibly improbable based on the probability of assembling various molecules by chance. While the probability of Darwinian evolution fully explaining the genesis of life is an interesting question (IMHO), the process is meant to work in incremental steps, not in one giant 'accident'.

David
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