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Article: Lifeless particles talk themselves into evolving, scientists say.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- January 20, 2006
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Byline: Ronald Kotulak
CHICAGO _ The only really bad argument University of Chicago physics professor Henry Frisch can remember his parents having was purely academic. The question: If a lightning bolt struck a primitive soup of basic chemical building blocks enough times, is there a chance it could eventually make a baby?
Frisch's father, an MIT physicist immersed in the knowledge that inanimate atoms combine to make living things said the probability was vanishingly small, but it was not zero. Given enough chances, such an event could conceivably arrange all the necessary atoms in the right order to produce an infant.
His mother, a Harvard ...