Creating life in the lab : how new discoveries in synthetic biology make a case for the Creator / Fazale Rana.

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Rana, Fazale, 1963- [Author]

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text

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unmediated

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volume

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9780801072093

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BL255 .C743 2011
BL255

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Life is like music -- Blessed by a new species -- Treading in the steps already marked -- Becoming acquainted with the principals and principles -- A scientist's splendor -- The particulars of life's formation -- Conquering the challenges -- Promised impossibilities -- The agony of reflections -- United by no link -- A thousand other miseries -- Persevere in exile.

Subject: Fazale Rana details the fascinating quest for synthetic life and argues convincingly that when scientists succeed in creating life in the lab, they will unwittingly undermine the evolutionary explanation for the origin of life, demonstrating instead that undirected chemical processes cannot produce a living entity. --from publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Withdrawn	G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN	Non-fiction	BL255.R37 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		31923001752548

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"Reasons to Believe."

Waking up in Frankenstein's dream -- Life is like music -- Blessed by a new species -- Treading in the steps already marked -- Becoming acquainted with the principals and principles -- A scientist's splendor -- The particulars of life's formation -- Conquering the challenges -- Promised impossibilities -- The agony of reflections -- United by no link -- A thousand other miseries -- Persevere in exile.

Fazale Rana details the fascinating quest for synthetic life and argues convincingly that when scientists succeed in creating life in the lab, they will unwittingly undermine the evolutionary explanation for the origin of life, demonstrating instead that undirected chemical processes cannot produce a living entity. --from publisher description.

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