Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: Isaiah 42:5
"To a physicist like me, life looks to be a little short of magic: all those dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!
How do they do it?
There is no orchestrator, no choreographer directing the performance, no esprit de corps, no collective will, no life force – just mindless atoms pushing and pulling on each other, kicked about by random thermal fluctuations.
Yet the end product is an exquisite and highly distinctive form of order. Even chemists, who are familiar with the amazing transformative powers of molecules, find it breathtaking."
Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence, Astrobiology Magazine, April 15, 2010
"To a physicist like me, life looks to be a little short of magic: all those dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!
There is no orchestrator, no choreographer directing the performance, no esprit de corps, no collective will, no life force – just mindless atoms pushing and pulling on each other, kicked about by random thermal fluctuations.
Yet the end product is an exquisite and highly distinctive form of order. Even chemists, who are familiar with the amazing transformative powers of molecules, find it breathtaking."
Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence, Astrobiology Magazine, April 15, 2010
