Wikipedia standards on the origin of life/Talk

This article was created by Ed Poor.

Actually these are discussions on the origins of species; all except the divine creation 6000 years ago take life as already existing and working out how it came to look as it does now....

The origin of life is another topic: There are the theories of chemical evolution leading to self-reproducing systems; Miller and Urey's experiments back in the 1930s, theories like Cairns-Smith's ideas that the original self-reproducing chemical system may even have been clay based, newer stuff on spontaneously self-organising systems. Then there's the idea that wherever life first began, however unlikely, it only needed to happen once and life then spread throughout the universe (Panspermia); and, of course, Divine creation 60000 years ago.. - Malcolm Farmer

I agree that the title needs changing. I guess I was thinking about the origins website and newsgroup, which are devoted to evolution, etc.

The important point to me is that the terms (in the standards article) need tightening up, and I can't do it by myself. -- Ed Poor