Wowsers. “Harvard is making a funded effort to gather more data about the origin of life in the Universe.”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401070.html
I’m not a big fan about how this Washington Post article begins, however: “Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began.” Check your facts, guys. There is no debate in the scientific community about the theory of evolution. There are only data yet to be gathered, conclusions yet to be drawn, hypotheses to be tested and retested. But the barest proposition of the theory, that life adapts to its environment and in doing so evolves into new and wonderous forms, has yet to actually face a serious challenge from natural observation.
But, hey… you go, Harvard.
