Life is impossible.
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- 1993
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Examines some of the latest competing theories for the origins of life, centering on the problem of how life thrived in a carbon dioxide atmosphere and how the first DNA originated or whether life began in an RNA world. Lively inter-cutting of scientists' contesting views give the impression of fast and furious debate which, together with spectacular simulations of the earth's early, turbulent atmosphere make a compelling film out of fairly difficult subject matter. Contributors include:- Dr. Stanley Miller (University of California), Prof. Jeffrey Bada (Scripps Institute of Oceanography), Dr. Graham Cairns-Smith (University of Glasgow), Dr. Gunther Wachtershauser (Munich patent lawyer who startles the professional scientists by an inspired piece of independent scientific research) and Prof. Michael Russell (University of Glasgow).
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