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studying the behaviour of a monkey when introduced to a typewriter doesn't. Studying the formation of a few molecules in a controlled environment hardly explain

studying the behaviour of a monkey when introduced to a typewriter doesn't. Studying the formation of a few molecules in a controlled environment hardly explains how living forms came to exist.

gliptic 5y ago
If you never learn where a few molecules came from, how could you possibly make progress on the problem?
- dekhn 5y ago
  we made substantial progress in biology before we understood molecules. this is because it's not necessary to be entirely reductive to understand larger systems.
  - gliptic 5y ago
    Yes, but we're talking origin of life.