[Fwd: Harvard to Investigate Origins of Life

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University is joining the long-running debate

over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study

how life began.

 

The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from

Harvard over the next few years. The project begins with an admission

that some mysteries about life's origins cannot be explained.

 

" My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple

series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine

intervention, " said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical

biology at Harvard.

 

The " Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative " is still in its early

stages, scientists told the Boston Sunday Globe. Harvard has told the

research team to make plans for adding faculty members and a collection

of multimillion-dollar facilities.

 

Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over

millions of years. It has been standard in most public school science

texts for decades but recently re-emerged in the spotlight as

communities and some states debated whether school children should also

be taught about creationism or intelligent design.

 

The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to

have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have

had a hand in creation.

 

Harvard has not been seen as a leader in origins of life research, but

the university's vast resources could change that perception.

 

" It is quite gratifying to see Harvard is going for a solution to a

problem that will be remembered 100 years from now, " said Steven Benner,

a University of Florida scientist who is one of the world's top chemists

in origins-of-life research.

 

 

 

 

 

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