In science, Melvin Calvin (1911-1997) was an American chemist, a scientifically-coded closet theist, noted for []
Chemical evolution
In 1949, Calvin had a "period of recuperation after an illness" (see: genius hiatus effect) during which time he was led to ruminate on the following objective: [1]
“The tools of chemistry and physics were developed in precision, and concepts of biochemistry and biology were evolving in generality, so that investigations into the earliest period—that borderland between non-living and the living—became possible.”
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Religion
Calvin's writing are very religion soaked. In 1967-68, as Eastman professor at Oxford, Calvin gave a series of lectures, entitled Chemical Evolution, wherein he expounded in this "borderland", albeit one such that in the preface he is using the words "primary creation" and "final creation", in respect to his manuscript (lecture notes) turned book, which is but god code. On page two, Calvin is already citing the Bible, Genesis, and how his book will be concerned with the "fifth day" of creation.
Photosynthesis
In 1961, Calvin won the Nobel Prize for his work on the assimilation of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. [2]
Advisors | Students
Anti-reductionist Michael Polanyi was Calvin’s academic advisor; Dean Kenyon was one of Calvin’s religiously-gone-awry noted students.
Quotes
The following are noted quotes:
“The study of chemical evolution is based on the assumption that life appeared on the surface of the earth as a result of the normal operation of the laws of physics and chemistry. This implies there must have been a period of time in the earth’s history that encompassed the transition between a ‘non-living molecular population’ on its surface and a population of ‘molecular aggregates’ that we would call living.”
— Melvin Calvin (1969), Chemical Evolution (pg. v)
“As I try to discern the origin of that conviction, I seem to find it in a basic notion discovered 2,000 or 3,000 years ago, and enunciated first in the western world by the ancient Hebrews: namely that the universe is governed by a single god, and is not the product of the whims of many gods, each governing its own province according to his own laws. This monotheistic view seems to be the historical foundation for modern science.”
— Melvin Calvin (1969), Chemical Evolution (pg. 258) (Ѻ)(Ѻ); see also: Critias hypothesis disproof (Ѻ)
References
1. Calvin, Melvin. (1969). Chemical Evolution: Molecular Evolution towards the Origin of Living Systems on the Earth and Elsewhere (borderland, pg. v). Clarendon Press.
2. Dolloff, Norman H. (1975). Heat Death and the Phoenix: Entropy, Order, and the Future of Man (pgs. 124-25). Exposition Press.
External links
● Melvin Calvin – Wikipedia.
