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Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories is an
intelligent design religious book written in 1984 by the
creationists Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley and Roger L.
Olson.   [edit] Authors  The book was written by two chemists
Charles B. Thaxton and Roger L. Olson with Walter L. Bradley an
engineer.[1] All three of the authors are devout Christian
creationists yet attempted to try and downplay this and pretend
to be neutral in parts of the book to sell more copies.[2]
Charles Thaxton is a fellow of the Discovery Institute.[3]  The
book has been claimed as one of the first books that started the
modern ID movement in America.[4]  [edit] Overview  In a
nutshell the authors attack science and reject all natural
theories for the origin of life on earth and end up claiming
that the Christian God did it. If the B