Christian Schwabe

Christian Schwabe (born 1930) is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of South Carolina's Chemistry faculty.
Education
Schwabe earned his PhD in 1965 in biochemistry from University of Iowa, Iowa. He was the assistant professor, of biochemistry at Harvard Medical School up until 1971.
Genomic Potential Hypothesis
Schwabe in writing a number of scientific papers on biochemistry began to criticise the modern evolutionary synthesis. After studying the formation of lysosomes, cytochromes and amino acids, Schwabe claims his research shows anomalies from the Darwinian evolutionary point of view. Instead, Schwabe maintains that all proteins had their present forms right from the start of life independently, he further claims that no intermediate form has been found between molecules.
Schwabe published a book titled The Genomic Potential Hypothesis: a Chemist's View of the Origins, Evolution and Unfolding of Life in 2001. In the book Schwabe maintained that evolutionary events are a consequence of chemical and biochemical principles rather than genetic mutation. Schwabe further contends that life on Earth has a multiplicity of origins, rather than all species evolving from one single cell. Schwabe rejects common descent and his hypothesis is that all species on earth have an independent but natural origin from chemical pools of nucleic acids, similar to the primordial soup theory.
List of publications
*Christian Schwabe and Gregory Warr, "A Polyphyletic View of Evolution: The Genetic Potential Hypothesis," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 27 (1984):465-85.
*Christian Schwabe, "On the validity of molecular evolution," Trends in Biochemical Sciences 11 (1986):280-3.
*C. Schwabe and E.E. Ballesbach, "Relaxin: structures, functions, promises, and nonevolution," FASEB Journal 8 (1994):1152-60.
*Christian Schwabe, "Theoretical limitations of molecular phylogenetics and the evolution of relaxins," Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 107B (1994):167-77.
*Christian Schwabe, "Genomic Potential Hypothesis of Evolution: A Concept of Biogenesis in Habitable Spaces of the Universe," The Anatomical Record 268 (2002):171—179.
*Christian Schwabe, "Chemistry and Biodiversity," Chemistry and Biodiversity 1 (2004):1584-9.

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