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all life on the earth were to be obliterated, there is at least a chance 

 that it might start all over again.* | 



It is universally accepted that life started in the water, and the 

 first living things are presumed to have been very lowly, some- 

 thing small and soft, like the simple, tiny protozoa that zoologists 



• The constant presence and proportion of the radioactive C14 isotope in 

 living matter inclines me to believe that the 'creation of life*, or the 'animation' 

 of matter, probably took place in suitable non-living matter under the influence 

 of a special type and density of radioactivity. It may well eventually be possible 

 to deduce what this was and to carry out the process in the laboratory, though 

 the living matter so produced may not necessarily be the same as that which 

 originally appeared on earth. 



