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Australian physicist Paul Davies as he speculates in New
Scientist 18 September 1999 about the origin of life. He admits
life is not just chemistry. It is information carried on
chemicals that makes living cells work. He asks “How did stupid
atoms spontaneously write their own software and where did the
very peculiar form of information needed to get the first living
cell up and running come from?”  He then offers two
possibilities blind chance, which he quickly dismisses, or
“biological determinism.” Biological determinism is the belief
that the laws of physics and chemistry somehow favours life
chemicals linking together in the correct order needed for
living cells. Paul Davies admits there is no evidence for this.
Editorial Comment: Davies refuses to admit, or even discuss, the
most obvious and logical explanation life contains information
on the chemicals because an intelligent creator