Abiogenesis

Jmunk: "How does the dna form? How are the left hand amino acids separated from the right hand amino acids?...etc..."I think it's more important to ask, "What does it mean if we don't have answers?" We don't know everything and never will, but the business of science is of asking questions such as yours, and then going off and finding the answers. For some of these questions we may never know the answer. Perhaps "How did life begin?" is one of those questions. We cannot know if the answer lies within our abilities to discover, but scientists are trying, and perhaps they'll succeed, perhaps not.The nature of your questions, though not the questions themselves, have a long history. Four hundred years ago you could ask what keeps the planets in orbit about the sun, and argue that since we didn't know that it was therefore evidence of God. Three hundred years ago you could ask where lightening comes from, and since we didn't know you could argue it was evidence of God. Two hundred years ago you could ask about the origin of species, and since we didn't know you could argue it was evidence of God. One hundred years ago you could point to the anomalies in the orbit of Mercury and argue that since we didn't know why that it was evidence of God. And now you ask how the amino acids in life ended up with only single-handedness when both are equally likely, and argue that since we don't know that it is evidence of God (or an IDer in your case).If questions about what we don't know are to have any significance, you must first successfully make the case that they are different in nature from these old questions from the history of science.--Percy

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[This message has been edited by Percipient, 12-01-2001]