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I can't help but wonder if the Intelligent Design folks were stimulii
for this project, like "let's prove these folks are crackpots." I
believe that science is often reactive; I get ideas from objecting to
something someone else believes. I did a bit of editing to emphasize my
concept.<br>
Lynn<br>
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Premise Checker wrote:<br>
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cite="midPine.NEB.4.63.0508151854470.8647@panix1.panix.com">Harvard to
investigate origins of life
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Harvard%20Evolution">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Harvard%20Evolution</a>
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Monday, August 15, 2005 · Last updated 6:03 a.m. PT
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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"My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very
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simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no
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divine intervention," said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry
and
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chemical biology at Harvard.
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Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved
over
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millions of years. It has been standard in most public school
science
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texts for decades but recently re-emerged in the spotlight as
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communities and some states debated whether school children should
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also be taught about creationism or intelligent design.
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The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex
to
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have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must
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have had a hand in creation.
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Harvard has not been seen as a leader in origins of life research,
but
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the university's vast resources could change that perception.
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"It is quite gratifying to see Harvard is going for a solution to a
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problem that will be remembered 100 years from now," said Steven
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Benner, a University of Florida scientist who is one of the world's
<br>
top chemists in origins-of-life researc<br>
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