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This book got increasingly better as I read it. It started off uninteresting due to the necessity for Crick to give a general overview of molecular biology. However, by the middle this became an excellent look at the origin of life and how important its understanding is to humanity. While the bits devoted to directed panspermia are a little far-fetched, they are enthralling and ultimately feasible.
Crick writes with the clarity of Dawkins (minus the smirk) and the awe of Sagan. Those are my two favorite popular science writers, so that is quite a compliment. THe final two chapters make this book. Crick makes the case for science as the basis of our society and in one sweeping argument declares religion, classical philosophy, and scientific indifference as foolish and outdated. The origin of life on the Earth (as well as the universe) is not only a question worth asking it is the most fundamental question to all of life science.