Primordial Soup Cannot Tolerate Salt

A recent article in the journal )Astrobiology Vol 2. No. 2 (2002) shows that sea salt destroys fatty-acid membranes and prevents RNA from polymerizing, even at 1/7th the concentration of salt of today's oceans. They effectively dismember membranes and stop RNA units from forming anything longer than dimers. With mechanisms proposed to concentrate these for abiogenesis, it also appears that these mechanisms would also concentrate salt.

The point is is that the "primordial soup" theory relies on a mechanism to concentrate amino acids and other organic molecules. This would also concentrate salt, which would stop macromolecules forming. Also, many studies show that the early ocean was twice as salty as it is now-read this abstract of a book-Life on Land in the Precambrian and the Marine Vs Non-Marine Setting of Early EvolutionAnd as for your point about anoxic vs oxic, I thought most people agree here that it was oxic- refer to exobiology@dukeuniversity

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However, most of the scientific community now believes that the early Earth's atmosphere was not reducing. Instead, scientists beleive the atmosphere was full of oxidants, such as CO2 and N2. An oxidizing atmosphere is essentially neutral, and does not permit organic chemistry to occur.

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[This message has been edited by blitz77, 09-23-2002]

Because todays organisms are protected by cell membranes, skin, scales, etc.

This relates to abiogenesis, not evolution.

I know there are other theories out there... however, the primordial soup theory is the main evolutionist model right now and taught in almost every school. Now, you are talking about numerous problems with my idea. What idea are you talking about? What I posted was just about how organic molecules cannot survive in salty water. Experimentally provable. So this is just further evidence that the primordial soup theory is wrong.

And since you don't know, your belief in the occurrence of abiogenesis is but faith that it occurred.

How about this then?

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But when life first appeared around 3.5 billion years ago, the ocean was much saltier than it is today. Estimates of the early ocean's salinity range between 1.2 to 2 times present-day salinity.

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--Salt of the Early Earth

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Evolution has nothing to do with how life got started.

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Didn't I say that before?

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This relates to abiogenesis, not evolution.

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[This message has been edited by blitz77, 09-25-2002]