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keith63
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Message 28 of 142 (93747)
03-21-2004 8:24 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by DNAunion
03-21-2004 6:38 PM


I would like to know where you found information on the self assembly of ribose or deoxyribose. If the sugar glucose is assembled in living things and if ribose and deoxyribose, especially ribose, can't self assemble then you have a very difficult problem with abiogenesis. I think it is very ironic that something simple enough to happen accidently has baffled the scientific community for hundreds of years. I would think if life arrose on it's own with no help then it should be very easy to duplicate. Yet with all our intellegence and advancements it still remains tantilizingly out of reach.

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keith63
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Message 33 of 142 (93818)
03-22-2004 8:58 AM
Reply to: Message 29 by crashfrog
03-21-2004 8:34 PM


Diamonds also arise on their own. Do you think that they are easy to duplicate?
What's the one difference here? We can make diamonds, although not easily, but we can't make a cell!!! With all our technology we can't make life.
Don't conflate "natural" with "simple", please.
I don't think anything about life is simple. That's why I always hate when textbooks refer to prokaryotes as "simple cells." I think life and the universe are unbelievably complex which is why I think it was created by a God. The God.
The universe is quite capable of great complexity on it's own.
That is a very anthropomorphic statement. You act like the universie is making decisions on it's own. I don't think the Universe is capable of anything on it's own. Natural processes can carve rocks that, with imagination, look similar to objects but it can't create life from non-life. How does the third part of the cell theory go again? Oh yes; All cells come from preexisting cells.
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