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Author Topic:   Self-Replicating Molecules - Life's Building Blocks (Part II)
Tanypteryx
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Message 91 of 97 (816261)
08-01-2017 8:55 PM
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08-01-2017 8:16 PM


Re: Diversification of self-replicating molecules
There's a difference between cannot happen in nature and do not happen in nature.
We can produce many chemical reactions in the laboratory that do not happen in nature.
Curiously, we have evidence that all the chemical reactions that occur in all life processes do happen in nature, so what's your point?

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Tangle
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Message 92 of 97 (816263)
08-02-2017 3:05 AM
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08-01-2017 8:16 PM


Re: Diversification of self-replicating molecules
CRR writes:
There's a difference between cannot happen in nature and do not happen in nature
Science is looking for how life started on earth. One of the steps it can resonably take is to see if they can create it using any method at all. That woud show that life can be started using the building blocks to be found in our natural world.
The next step would be to show how life started using the conditions found on earth at the time we believe it did start. Creating the conditions to match a natural system producing simple replicating molecules is not being an intelligent designer of life.
And it's as far as it could be from being a designer of elephants, roses and people.
Of course, finding that it is possible for life to develop spontaneously from the chemistry pre-existing on our planet does not answer the question of where that chemistry came from in the first place, but it does push the problem even further back. And 'big' physics is beginning to develop some interesting ideas of how such stuff occurs.
Your mythology is no longer useful.

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Message 93 of 97 (816265)
08-02-2017 4:02 AM
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08-02-2017 3:05 AM


Re: Diversification of self-replicating molecules
Since abiogenesis has never been observed in nature or in the lab it remains mythical.

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Message 94 of 97 (816267)
08-02-2017 4:33 AM
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08-02-2017 4:02 AM


Re: Diversification of self-replicating molecules
CRR writes:
Since abiogenesis has never been observed in nature or in the lab it remains mythical.
No, it remains an hypothesis. Do you understand the difference?
Dredge dodged this question, maybe you'll do better. Would anything change in your beliefs if/when science creates a self-replicating life-form?

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Message 95 of 97 (816336)
08-03-2017 1:43 AM
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08-02-2017 4:02 AM


Re: Diversification of self-replicating molecules
Since abiogenesis has never been observed in nature or in the lab it remains mythical.
What a strange thing for a Christian to say. As a Christian, I am going to have to leave you out on that limb by yourself. I will leave my saw up there for you.

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Genomicus
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Message 96 of 97 (816612)
08-08-2017 6:45 AM
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07-24-2017 11:46 AM


Re: Update --- have self-replicating molecules become life?
This also begs the question of when "life" develops -- I would say when evolution begins, and that looks like these molecules qualify.
I'm not sure this discovery is all that significant to OoL research. Sure, it's cool science and such, but this doesn't do much to show how biological life on Earth might have arose. I made note of this in another thread about a year ago, but there are plenty of self-replicating molecular systems out there -- like Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions, porphyrin ring formation, imide amide formation, etc. -- which means that there are plenty of possible routes to some kinds of molecular evolution occurring throughout the universe. But this doesn't do much to address how genetic-code-based life emerged on early Earth.

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Message 97 of 97 (816635)
08-08-2017 3:43 PM
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08-08-2017 6:45 AM


Re: Update --- have self-replicating molecules become life?
... which means that there are plenty of possible routes to some kinds of molecular evolution occurring throughout the universe. But this doesn't do much to address how genetic-code-based life emerged on early Earth.
Exactly. Baby steps, chemical reproduction first, then more complex structures (when does the cell membrane come in to the picture? I see it as a mechanism to concentrate chemical reproduction reactions).
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