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Author Topic:   Could RNA start life?
Dr Adequate
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Message 16 of 105 (682691)
12-04-2012 5:14 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by dayalanand roy
12-04-2012 12:50 AM


Nucleic acids are the information storage system of life. When there was no life, why did nature invent a storage system to store the information about sometning (Life) which was still not existent, and hence there was no information to store. Can we suppose the invention of a floppy disk, a CD or a pen drive before the invention of computer? Can we suppose the invention of bank before the invention of money?
Can we imagine that nature "invented" chalk and slate before the invention of writing? Yes. Yes we can. How about clay and reeds, as were used by the Babylonians? Yup. Birch bark and sharp pieces of flint? Yup. Animal hide and oak galls? Yup.
Analogies are tricky things. I recommend that you think about RNA by actually thinking about RNA rather than about things such as floppy disks which RNA vaguely reminds you of.

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Message 92 of 105 (725152)
04-24-2014 2:00 PM
Reply to: Message 84 by Ed67
04-24-2014 1:10 PM


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The reason for the resistance from the scientific establishment, and that it hasn't done science from a design perspective, is its commitment to methodological materialism.
What a strange fantasy. Do you have any evidence for it, or is it just one of those things you like to say from time to time?

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Message 103 of 105 (737970)
10-02-2014 9:09 PM
Reply to: Message 102 by djufo
10-02-2014 8:31 PM


Life did not just "appeared" on earth out of nothing. That doesn't happen. Life in the universe should be viewed as something more like an "infection" it spreads around, and wherever is an environment suitable for development, it evolves. In the case of earth, according to historical data, during the formation of the solar system this planet got infected with life from the collision between what it was the original earth and another celestial body orbiting the solar system which already had life on it.
Perhaps you could show us this "historical data". Thanks.

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