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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Prebiotic.
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Whether or not there has been supernatural intervention along the way is problematical and not subject to experimental analysis, but only a damn fool would dream that the origin or origins of life and life's subsequent evolution was inrinsic in the nature of prebiological matter.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Background: Darwin himself did not attempt to explain the origin of life, but many modern Darwinian evolutionists have attempted feats of this kind, sometimes using origin of life ideas such as chemical evolution prebiological evolution or prebiological evolution.
The minimal cell: No response so far? Denyse O 2005
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One of the problems with early biology on the early Earth is you need abundant nitrogen for all these prebiological processes to happen - and of course nitrogen is in ammonia.
BBC News - Home 2011
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In this second case, if life arose in organic form, then there must have been a prebiological source of organics.
Blah, Blah! Technology wasmall 2010
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Thus, Dobzhansky would insist that, "prebiological natural selection is a contradiction in terms."
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Thus, Dobzhansky would insist that, "prebiological natural selection is a contradiction in terms."
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B. S. Haldane (1929) proposed that the first living cells arose by a long, multistage process of prebiological chemical (or biochemical) evolution beginning with the simple gases of the Earth’s early atmosphere.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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