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Re: OT: Evolution, Question 2
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Bruce Collins <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:54:02 -0400
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Denys Beauchemin

> At what point did "life" start?  What was the spark, so to speak?  What
> caused a compound in a "primordial soup" to "feed", to grow and to start
> replicating?  (Compound being some aggregate of chemicals, I guess.)

There's an excellent Sci-Fi book by Stanislaw Lem, called "His Master's
Voice", that attributes it to a repeating non-random message beamed from
outer space. (But the SETI guys can't find it.)

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