Primordial Prescription

By David L Abel

How prescription and its processing arose in inanimate nature is by far the most perplexing problem facing life-origin science. Some have argued that programming had to precede, organize, instruct, and "compute" life into existence. Others, realizing that prebiotic nature would have been incapable of practicing such formalisms, instead believe primordial cells "self-organized" spontaneously, and just "emerged" from purely physical interactions. Holders of both perspectives need desperately to critique this book. Can you vigorously defend your perspective under extensive scientific challenge? Or is your mind fanatically "made up" prior to any substantive discussion? Quality science hinges upon open-mindedness and sometimes painful self-honesty in examining the data. Are our life-long cherished presuppositions written in stone, or are we "man enough" to consider the possibility that we may have been mistaken about a few things all these years? This book focuses on the question of how life's complex, conceptual controls might have arisen in a prebiotic environment consisting of nothing but chance and necessity, mass and energy. The author, like Einstein, espouses a "minimum metaphysic." Life-origin questions are addressed in a purely scientific manor by a prominent life-origin investigator with dozens of peer-reviewed science journal papers within this specialty. Dr. Abel was also the Editor of The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965798828
• ISBN13: 9780965798822
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Longview Press -- Academic
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.7"