Organic Chemists Merely Increase the Probability of Results

It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

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In nature, with enough time and proper conditions, the results would happen eventually without him, including self-duplicating molecular systems like viruses.

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The place of genetics in modern biology

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Beadle , George Wells (1959), The place of genetics in modern biology, Retrieved on 2012-01-04

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