Kenyon wasn’t the only scientist on the panel who had come to this conclusion. A year before the conference, in 1984, chemist Charles Thaxton, polymer scientist Walter Bradley, and geochemist Roger Olsen published a book challenging the current chemical evolutionary theories of the origin of life. The book, titled The Mystery of Life’s Origin, was published by Philosophical Library, at the time a prestigious New York scientific publisher that had previously published works by more than twenty Nobel laureates. In Mystery, Thaxton and his colleagues exposed many deficiencies in the various
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