Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

7 - "IT"
What meaning has this one God decreed for intelligent life?
The molecular biologist Jacques Monod, Director of the Pasteur
Institute, Paris, and Nobel Prize winner in 1965, excited and upset the
world of believers with his book Chance and Necessity, and even the
atheistic left were outraged by Monod's thesis, because they suspected
in it a philosophical inflation of biological facts into an ersatz religion.
In his book Monod names the three stages which made all life
possible:
● 1. The formation of the mainly chemical components of living
beings on earth: the nucleotides and the amino-acids.
(Nucleotides are compounds of phosphoric acids, nucleic bases
and carbohydrates which are found especially in the cell nuclei.
Amino-acids are organic acids which are important in the
building up of albumen.)
● 2. The formation, on the basis of these materials, of the first
macro-molecules capable of replication (macro-molecules are
those consisting of 1,000 or more atoms).
● 3. Around these infinitely repeatable structures is formed the
teleonomic apparatus, a system that is complete in itself; it leads
to the original cell.
Monod summarizes the most recent work on molecular biology and
genetics. Billions of years ago certain simple carbon compounds (such
as methane) entered the earth's atmosphere and the earth's crust. Later
water and ammonia formed. From these simple compounds many
substances originated, including nucleotides and amino-acids, which
were finally combined into the first organism, the first cell, and
consequently the first life, in the prebiotic primordial soup. In other
words, that was a time when chemical and physical processes were not
yet dependent on the presence of living beings. (Gods from Outer
Space.) The "short step" to the evolution of homo sapiens ostensibly
comes into the theory of evolution in a peaceful development without