Then in 1976, a student gave me a book by A.E. Wilder-Smith, "The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution". Many pages of that book deal with arguments against "Biochemical Predestination", and I found myself hard-pressed to come up with a counter-rebuttal. Eventually, several other books and articles by neo-creationists came to my attention. I read some of Henry Morris' books, in particular, "The Genesis Flood". I'm not a geologist, and I don't agree with everything in that book, but what stood out was that here was a scientific statement giving a very different view of earth history. Though the book doesn't deal with the subject of the origin of life "per se", it had the effect of suggesting that it is possible to have a rational alternative explanation of the past.