The Origin of Life

Darwin's theory, whatever it does or doesn't do, says zero about the origin of life. He always presumes the pre-existence of a form from which other points evolve. For many years Richard Dawkins obscured everything, obfuscated the whole situation. And what is mathematics I think showed him was that the innocent aspect of evolution can only lead to minor variations on a theme. That's non-controversial but once you go beyond that and think of new animals, new body plans, all of that kind of thing. So you have two separate problems here. One is theorigin of life, which we'll come back to. But the second is just this year calculation. Now you