Thanks Loud for that link. In any case there would have had to be a precursor to the current Polymerases that DNA uses today. Are there any theories as to those precursors?
I also noticed on that page, however, that the RNA world theory is not being widely accepted.
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At the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in 1994, Leslie Orgel observes, "Because synthesizing nucleotides and achieving replication of RNA under plausible prebiotic conditions have proved so challenging, chemists are increasingly considering the possibility that RNA was not the first self replicating molecule..."
The site did go on to give some other interesting theories as to the origin of information, none which seemed to hold its weight. It seems that this is serving to be an extremely huge enigma for evolutionists. I also found several other quotes extremely interesting
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To go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to a bacterium Lynn Margulis
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There is no evidence in life today of anything that produces huge quantities of new, random strings of nucleotides or amino acids, some of which are advantageous. But if precellular life did that, it would need lots of time to create any useful genes or proteins. How long would it need? After making some helpful assumptions we can get the ratio of actual, useful proteins to all possible random proteins up to something like one in 10^500 (ten to the 500th power). So it would take, barring incredible luck, something like 10^500 trials to probably find one
This sums up, to a large extent, my view on the existence of a God. The chance of random, natural, processes is extremely unlikely. While this does not completely rule out evolution, I think this is convincing evidence that there had to be a Creator to have started it all.
This message has been edited by jjburklo, 02-25-2005 18:42 AM
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