razd posted;
Thanks for your question. btw - you may want to read Self-Replicating Molecules - Life's Building Blocks, Part II and watch the video on the possible protocells that have been discussed here.
Hi Razd, I watched the video. The music was great. But if this is science's answer to the orgin of life, you guys are in big trouble.
On this board I have been critized for speculating, dreaming, not showing the evidence etc. and then you have the nerve to show this video?
I think Dr. Szostak should take a couple of years sabbatical and think about his life and studies.
I acutally laughed through most of the "important parts" of the video.
Yes maybe life began that way, and maybe my grandsons theory of the easter bunny is valid.
I would but my money on my grandsons, and they are only 2yr, 18mo. and 7mo.
I'm sure Anthony Flew would get a kick out of that video. Remember he said;
"My departure from atheism was not occasioned by any new phenomenon or argument. Over the last two decades my whole framework of thought has been in a state of migration.This was a consequence of my continuing assessment of the evidence of nature. When I finally came to recognize the existence of a God, it was not a paradigm shift, because my paradigm remains, as Plato in his Republic scriped his Socrates to insist: 'We must follow the argument wherever it leads'."
The argument for the orgin of life does not lead to Dr. Szostak's thoughts or theory.