In his Aug. 22 letter, “Theories alter with new research,” Steve Engard rejects the notion that “science has not explained how life came into being.” He appeals to the “recently published research in Nature Chemistry 2011, out of the University of California, Merced. This is the beginning of how life started and more research needs to be done, but it clearly points to natural processes, not a supernatural being.”
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