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Author Topic:   Missing building stone of abiogenesis discovered?
Kairyu
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Message 1 of 9 (678937)
11-11-2012 5:30 PM


http://www.sciencedaily.com/...ases/2012/11/121110093550.htm
According to the article, a molecule called AEG has been found to exist naturally. This would give weight to new and improved theories on abiogenesis.
Now, I'm no expert, but I was curious what this forum's more knowledgeable members would think about these developments.
Now most naturalists often still have to reply that ''we do not yet know for sure'' when pressed on this facet of the orgin of humanity. Is this a major step towards relative clarity on abiogenesis?
Seems like a orgin of life topic to me, but it's mostly a news topic, so other more relevant subforums also could work.
Title might also need rephrasing.

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Message 2 of 9 (678938)
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Adding a little more, evolutionists are fond of pointing out that the origin of life must have been a gradual affair involving copying with modification and selection, and looking over the article it presents the possibility that PEG might have preceded RNA as the basis for heredity, just as RNA might have preceded DNA.
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11-11-2012 5:38 PM


Thread Copied from Proposed New Topics Forum
Thread copied here from the Missing building stone of abiogenesis discovered? thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.

  
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Message 4 of 9 (679003)
11-11-2012 9:59 PM
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11-11-2012 5:30 PM


Hi Kairyu,
Kairyu writes:
Is this a major step towards relative clarity on abiogenesis?
No clarity at all according to your article.
From your article.
Does the production of AEG by cyanobacteria represent an echo of the earliest life on Earth?
"We just don't have enough data yet to draw that sort of conclusion," reports Cox
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Message 5 of 9 (679055)
11-12-2012 8:09 AM


I see what you're trying to imply. However, this statement more a common protocol to not draw any hard conclusions about such a important topic without further research, rather then stemming from any real confusion or dead-ends. It's always written like this. You genuinely didn't know, or are you just taking it out of context?
From what I learned before about the topic, this is a significant lead, enough for me to ask the question speculatively.

  
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Message 6 of 9 (679079)
11-12-2012 10:50 AM
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Re: Did life really begin naturally billions of years ago, or just a few thousand years ago in the six 24 hour Solar Clock measured "days" of creation.
Sub Thread: Did life really begin naturally billions of years ago, or just a few thousand years ago in the six days of creation.
This would give weight to new and improved theories on abiogenesis.
What is the difference in regard to the threads in this forum since Abiogenesis is hardly substantially different from the Spontaneous Generation stated in Genesis, which when closely read merely states that the Plant Kingdom appeared from the "first sprouts of lkife on Earth," and the Animalingdom followed.
This is essentially the same as science has found in the Two Kingdom biology we use today.

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11-12-2012 10:58 AM
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This is essentially the same as science has found in the Two Kingdom biology we use today.
We don't use a "two kingdom biology" today, though. There may be as many as six kingdoms, if we follow T. Cavalier-Smith's argument (A revised six-kingdom system of life, 1997), and anyway modern biology uses the three-domain system as the broadest taxonomic division.
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11-12-2012 2:58 PM
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We don't use a "two kingdom biology" today, though. There may be as many as six kingdoms, if we follow T. Cavalier-Smith's argument (A revised six-kingdom system of life, 1997), and anyway modern biology uses the three-domain system as the broadest taxonomic division.
As you ought know, none of the six systems of taxonomy is really satisfactory enough to insist that one or the other must be used because it is perfect.
But all of them are arbitrary and can be useful when the circumstances avail themselves.
But my reasoning is that since Genesis speaks only of Plants and Animals, a modern reader should comprehend what the writers were saying, and they should utilize the Two Kingdom System sincethe imlication is that all life forms were created during the six eras of geological time.
(Which side are you on?
Are you a scientist taking the opposition to my theistic evolution or a programmed loyal denominational church person maintaining that Genesis contradicts science???)

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11-12-2012 4:11 PM
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11-12-2012 2:58 PM


Hi Kofh2u,
In the interests of keeping this thread on topic, I'm suspending your permissions in the Origin of Life forums.

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