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Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak

Big Brains

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How Life Banned

We can't go back to the early Earth. We don't have time machines. And so when we think about it early on, and at least historically with philosophers and theologians and others, this whole concept of a creator or a life-giver comes into this. How do you think about that? The problem just seemed so hard, so incomprehensible that people had to come up with these kinds of supernatural explanations. But I think everything that we're learning says that this is a natural process that follows the laws of physics and chemistry, and there's nothing magical about it.

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