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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
metabolism being the process of repair and maintenance of the cell and replication being the process of making a copy of specific cell structures I would have to agree.
It is more a matter of degree than a different process. Like micro and macro evolution. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Against my better judgement about getting into an one-upmanship contest, I will answer this one simply:
You still have not shown where I say that viruses or prions are living. Until you do that your argument is all based on a false assumption of what I said. Your quotes do not show that. My posts do not show that. You are in error. Again. I have no need to converse with fools who repeat their mistakes. Especially after being corrected. Enjoy yourself. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Poor fool.
ALL you have shown is that viruses and prions are not living.
And I have not claimed they were living The fact is that your whole argument, that your ample demonstration via books quotes that viruses and prions are not living shows my arguments to be flawed, is based on the mistaken belief that I said they were. The fact is that you continue to attack something that is not there. After being shown that fact several times. The only conclusion is that you are congenitally incapable of either (q) seeing the truth or (8) admitting you made a mistake even to yourself. As such I will take pity on you and no longer reply to your posts. This will allow you to declare victory and assuage your ego.
AND -- You still have not shown where I say that viruses or prions are living. You made your bed and you lie in it. Enjoy. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
For me the search for the elusive transition from non-life to life has to be two pronged:
(1) from the bottom up -- looking for what happens naturally in a variety of environments to build more and more complex molecules from the materials available. This search also includes simulating a variety of early earth environments and possible environments on other planets (mars) or moons (europa). These molecules are the building blocks, making towers from them is the quest. (2) from the top down -- reducing life to a bare minimum, also in a variety of environments to find what can be done away with from the evolved systems and still have a (possibly crude and likely inefficient) form of life. The variables will likely change with different environments and sources of energy that go with them. This is where LUCA comes into the picture. Taking the skyscraping towers of today and going back through time to the original huts. As such research is done from both sides an awareness will build about how near one is to the other and bridges can begin to be built ... studies on how to get from tower foundation (D) to small tower structure (42) , very much like the Golden Gate bridge was built from each side of the bay in closing increments even though most engineers of the day said it could not be done. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Ah, the old improbable probability problem ...
The errors in this are multifold and pervasive
{{text in pink has been added by edit}} [This message has been edited by AbbyLeever, 03-31-2004] we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
ahahahahaa I love it.
I used a similar argument to "The probability of an event occurring, after it has already occurred, is exactly 100%" on another board (I said the probability defaults to 1 after it has occurred) and the other person didn't understand it ... that there is no probability that it could not have occurred anymore, for we are here. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Sometimes the envelope needs to be pushed across the table before it is opened.
we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
why there and not here? I will find it.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Black --
Welcome to the fray from another newbie. Nice post.
Chill, man! Don't get mad here
Don't worry, I think this is DNU's modus operandi with new people.
... originally thought was that "DNA makes RNA makes protein." ... we now know that certain things do not need DNA but instead reverse transcribe their RNA. So we can illiminate DNA ...
Are you saying that we do not need DNA in a protocell construct to show behavior attributed to living matter? Would not this structure be somewhere between a virus and a (primitive) cell (the virus having lost elements of the protocell that it can replace by using elements in a current cell)?
Hammerhead ribozymes are small, catalytic RNAs that undergo self-cleavage of their own backbone to produce two RNA products There have been several self-replicating peptides discovered. The one I referenced was a 32-amino-acid peptide, folded into an alpha-helix and having a structure based on a region of the yeast transcription factor GCN4, can autocatalyse its own synthesis by accelerating the amino-bond condensation of 15- and 17-amino-acid fragments in solution.
Is this occurring within a cell (or protocell) environment or is it occurring in a more open environment? Agreed this is not "LIFE" but it certainly looks to the development of self-replicating organic systems, definitely applicable to abiogenesis.
Currently, our knowledge of abiogenesis is like a puzzel.
Another analogy is a bridge - one shore is non-life, the other is life. From one shore we can build an abutment extending into the river based on known organic molecules that existed and can be easily created (amino acids would be in this group). From the other shore we can build an abutment extending into the river based on minimizing the elements needed for a living cell (LUCA would fall in this category, self replicating RNA would fall in this category). The river is swift and filled with rocks -- some rocks can be used as stepping stones to build a temporary guide for the bridge, some rocks are eroded (viruses and prions) and some are fairly robust (replicating peptides), but all are useful. I look forward to your next post on this topic.AL. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
btw --
I googled on {self-replicating peptides 32-amino-acid peptide} - the information you gave and found this site:http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/kauffman/sak-peptides.html which talks about the whole procedure thanks for the info.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
It would help to have a little more info on which message you are replying to (If you use the little reply button with the red arrow at the end of the message it links your reply to the message).
I was under the impression that any amino acids formed naturally would be oxidized by oxygen in the atmosphere. Remember that we are talking about a time before there was an oxygen rich atmosphere on earth
so my existance does not count
that would count as an event that has already happened. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
ever consider how UV penetrates the atmospheres of venus and jupiter?
the whole atmosphere was different. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
This message was supposed to be a response to Black's message
EvC Forum: Abiogenesis and was posted in reply to DNAUnion by mistake this edit is a corrction of that mistake, leaving this message I have for DNAUnion:
[This message has been edited by AbbyLeever, 04-11-2004]
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
the following message was posted in response to the wrong message originally, and I am placing it here to correct that mistake. The original post has been edited as well. black --
Well, before I start the message I would like to say a couple things. DNAUnion has make quite a lot of attacks on my character. He has repeatedly called me dishonest. I can sympathize, as a similar experience happened to me. This, and his use of multiple posts in answer to one post, seem to be his main tools in an argument, the purpose of which appears to be an attempt to shout down the other opinions and evidence regardless of their worth. His problem also seems to be exacerbated by a propensity for misunderstanding other posters. He has gone so far as to take out of context quotes from two different posts of mine (separated by a series of other posts and about different things) to give the impression that I have contradicted myself, when in fact there is no such contradiction. That showed me that he was willingly dishonest, and I refuse to reply to any of his posts anymore as a result. I find your posts informative and constructive, and thank you for them. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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