Ideally, you might publish a fully-referenced review in a biological review
journal and do a rewrite for SciAm (or vice versa).
> Working Title: Laboratory Synthesis of Life: Implications
> for a Biological
> Definition of Life
>
> Introductory Remarks
> Part One: Metaphysical vs. biological definitions of life, and the
> implications of synthesis of life in the lab
Have to see more on this before commenting. I don't think even Moorad
believes in vitalism, and I wouldn't say that "irreducibly complex" is
really a metaphysical concept; Dembski claims it's falsifiable. I can't say
I think there are any moral or religious implications worth mentioning.
There might be misinterpretation though (like Einstein and "the theory of
relativism"), and that should be carefully anticipated and excised.
> Part Two: Overview of proteinoid microsphere protocell research
> Part Three: Protocells in light of cell theory
> Concluding Remarks: Protocells meet all the requirements of
> cell theory so
> they should be considered alive in the biological sense
Nothing particularly controversial here.
Looking forward to it.
Yours,
Dan
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