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Title: A Tour de Force by a very gifted amateur
Review: Gold shows how embarrassingly little we really know about our planet and ourselves with speculations on the nature of the geology beneath our feet, and the origin of our type of life.In an era where we are proud of exploring the origins of the cosmos, speculating about the nature of a reality beyond even the weirdness of quantum mechanics, robotically visiting other planets, and seemingly able to manipulate our genetic materials at will, it is humbling to see just how mysterious and unknown our own origin and the ground beneath our feet remain.If Gold is correct, we should be hearing about new species and industrial enzymes found in crude oil and earthquakes predicted by gas sniffers. We might even become a little more cautious about spreading our own DNA throughout the solar system before investigating what is already out there.
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