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AZPaul3
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Message 107 of 122 (601859)
01-24-2011 6:28 PM
Reply to: Message 104 by Blue Jay
01-24-2011 5:13 PM


Blue Life
The only other option seems to be that the first replicator just appeared out of the blue, in one step.
Seeming so, if one doesn't look too close.
Chemical reactions, even of a good quanitity of mid-sized molecules like aminos or nucleics, don't take up a lot of room.
I think about all the little nooks and cranies in every rock across the planet, under the sea, pond, lake, ocean edges and bottoms and I imagine there must be trillions upon trillions of these little test tubes where collisions and reactions are taking place. The timing of these reactions is also quite fast, in relation to waiting for a dental appointment for instance, and I think that over a few million years the probability of some short simple self-replicating chain of molecules natrually coming into being is .. well ... inevitable.
Not really "out of the blue" but close, I suppose.
Darwin takes it from there.

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AZPaul3
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Message 115 of 122 (604805)
02-15-2011 1:32 AM
Reply to: Message 113 by jaywill
02-15-2011 12:40 AM


Because its concerned with the Origin of Species ?
The Origin of what? The origin of replicating chemical compounds? The origin of chains of nucleic acids? The origin of proteins?
Oh. The Origin of Species. Like how these finches could be so different from island to island? How zebra fish could possibly be so different from Mako shark? How humans could be so similar to apes?
Sure, some of us who are interested in Evolution have similar interests in abiogenesis and stellar nucleogenesis and cosmology and chemistry and nuclear physics all stemming from the same question of how this all came about. But this question does not make each of the sciences deal with the same things, now does it.

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