Abiogenesis

Hi, love.If you are replying to a particular person, then use the little "reply" button that appears at the bottom right of the post to which you are replying. That will help us understand your messages by seeing to whom exactly you are conversing.Also, there are already two people here who do not use proper capitalization. Please do not follow their example. They are not good people.And use punctuation, too. These are not silly rules; they really do help us old folk in reading and comprehending your message. Refraining from capitalization or punctuation is not cool, nor is it "easier" -- it is just plain inconsiderate to other people.

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This world can take my money and time/ But it sure can't take my soul. -- Joe Ely

You see? Without punctuation or capitalization, this post is just unreadable.

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...message me when your done playing in the sand box

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Yeah, I'll do that.

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This world can take my money and time/ But it sure can't take my soul. -- Joe Ely

Hi, jj. Welcome to EvC.

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As best as I understand it the current model for abiogenesis happened in a primordial soup.

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Is it? I couldn't find a can of Cambell's Primordial Soup at the supermarket, so I couldn't check the ingredients.-

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So in response to MattP even if you can create DNA or RNA strands without the mechanics of a cell it is completely useless, unless the cell is already in existence to interpret that information.

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Not necessarily. Cech won the Nobel Prize in chemistry by demonstrating that RNA molecules can be self-catalyzing. This makes the RNA World hypothesis a contendor for a theory of the origin of life.Of course, it's also possible that the first proto-living replicating chemical systems may not have used DNA or RNA. They may have began to make use of the available amino acids to begin the construction of DNA or RNA molecules to assist in their proto-metabolic processes, and eventually these molecules began to be used as the means of storing hereditary information.All in all, not a lot of definitive information is known about the origins of life. A lot of pathways are still possible, there are key steps that are still not understood. A lot of good research is still to be done for the next several generations of biochemists at least.

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Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

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If they are able to produce some burnt slime after zapping a chemical soup (while making massive and unverifiable assumptions about theoretical atmospheric conditions on the early earth), can they really say that 'such an experiment proves that it is possible without intelligent guidance'?

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Well, yes. If the composition and conditions in the experiment are believed to be similar to that in the early earth, and the processes mimic what are believed to be processes operating on the early earth, then, yes, it proves it is possible.

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Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

That pretty much makes you a dick, then, doesn't it?

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Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine