From: "Jim Henley" <jlhenley@erols.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Wolfe apologetics
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 22:19:55 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: urth-errors@lists.best.com [mailto:urth-errors@lists.best.com]On
> Behalf Of Ouroboros
>
> <<<<the memories contained in a single cell certainly
> doesn't have a scientific basis>>>>>
>
> I don't think this is how Wolfe said the alzabo got
> the memories.

Not a single cell. You needed "a mouthful," which is quite a lot of cells.
And there was a time the "memory RNA" concept was taken quite seriously. I
gather from discussion here that it has since been rejected, but at the
time BOTNS was being written it was a plausible speculation. So it was
gobbledygook on Wolfe's part only if some of those Urth-style ripples in
the ocean of time happened to wash his way before they hit everyone else.

Best,


Jim
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