Lithodid-Man writes:
This video (with beautiful graphics!) skips the entire RNA process (maybe on purpose?). And RNA can both replicate and make proteins in the absence of DNA. And RNA sequences can form spontaneously in clays. All of these facts are available and known to the people at the Discovery Institute, but they choose to ignore/deny them. Still think them reliable and honest?
Actually, it is clip 6 that covers the RNA stuff your talking about. I don't know why you would have problems with the other clips. You might just have to refresh the page.
And RNA does not
spontaniously form in clays. It forms when minerals are exposed to nucleobases (assumed to be prexisting) and other catalyzing components.
Our studies had demonstrated that RNA monomers can
bind efficiently to clays, but would the clays catalyze the
formation of RNA oligomers?
Initial success came with
experiments that exposed Na-montmorillonite to a solution
containing nucleotides and carbodiimide (RN=C=R; a
so-called “condensing agent” that induces polymerization
reactions).....
...An important aspect of this RNA oligomer formation is
sequence selectivity”the preferential linkage of different
nucleotides with bases A, C, G, or U.
In experiments where
we began with equal amounts of these four bases, clay
catalysis resulted in the formation of a non-uniform distribution
of the 16 possible pair sequences
(
http://www.origins.rpi.edu/pdf/elemv1n3_145_150.pdf )
Maybe you have some other work you're referring to, but I predict the result will be the same.
It's not
spontaneous as they've told us or implied. It's spontaneous only after intelligent engineers
manipulate the clay and introduce nucleobases and other components that cannot be accounted for in the clays themselves.
The interest in clay templates for RNA synthesis is very simmilar to the interest in carbonaceous meteorites. You may want to read what we have already covered in a thread on that subject: http://
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I don't think it would be appropriate to get into a deabate about this here...
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