[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[fishtank]

Nice article.

I guess “Steampunk Spon-Gen” hasn’t solved jack-cheese yet.

[GOPGuide]

I personally believe in Macroevolution, but I still have serious doubts about non-life being able to turn into self replicating life (aka, “abiogenesis”).

[Cheetahcat]

So the egg came first or the chicken “experts” like algore at it again!

[mc6809e]

what they really demonstrated was that the molecules of life can only come from living cells.

Since "God" isn't supposed to be made of living cells, then we can rule him out as the creator, right?

[metmom]

But despite the claim that the scientists “have developed an experiment that sheds new and fascinating light on how life on Earth might have begun,”

Imagine that.

Intelligent (presumably) scientists develop (design) an experiment that sheds no new light on how they think that life on earth might have begun because it's all based on unsubstantiated presumption.

[CottShop]

[[what they really demonstrated was that the molecules of life can only come from living cells.]]

—what they really demonstrated was that it takes intelligent Design to create life- whether they like it or not—

There- fixed it. It takes itnelligent design at every step to create life- and htese butt ugly blind scientists just keep proving htis fact over and over again by showing hte NEED to create designer cells and molecules, and by having to manipulate the environemnts in which htese designer molecules exist in ways that are un-natural, and by showing htat these designer molecules MUST be protected from all of life’s natural destructive forces in order for htese designer molecules to exist long enough for these butt ugly blind scientists to ‘evolve’ new intelligent designed designer molecules that can itneract with hteir first intelligently designed designer molecules in ways that again, do not exist in nature.

[[sheds new and fascinating light]]

Way to overhype something you STILL don’t have a clue about NYT! Yep- the NYT’s keeps on getting exited about INTELLIGENTLY DESIGNED experiments - and keeps tryign to pass it off as ‘progress toward the explanation for how life’ suppoedly arose from non life- it just exposes their ignorance- At least they’re consistently blind and ignorant

[lurk]

Old news.

Dawkins, in the Blind Watchmaker, says that the beginning of living cells began with molecular bonding in clay.

So there you go. Problem solved.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

CELL..

[ElectricStrawberry]

Oooooo.....another uber-intelligent POS article by Brian Thomas *MS.

These guys spontaneously generate a form of RNA molecule and Brian Thomas *MS can’t handle that?

[goodusername]

“what they really demonstrated was that the molecules of life can only come from living cells.”

—What are these “molecules of life”? Nucleobases? amino acids?

“Evolutionists have theorized that life started with RNA molecules, but one difficulty has been how RNA’s building blocks, nucleotides, spontaneously assembled themselves prior to linking together to form the chain-like RNAs.”

—Nucleotides have been produced in experiments in which researchers believe replicate natural conditions going back decades. It hasn’t been a “difficulty” for quite a while now.

Just last week I read a story where nucleotides were produced in an experiment in ice:
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/did-life-evolve-in-ice
“Over a quarter-century, the frozen ammonia-cyanide blend had coalesced into the molecules of life: nucleobases, the building blocks of RNA and DNA, and amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.”
(Yeah, I know the story is in the Feb 2008 edition, I’m a tad behind in my reading).

Nor is it an issue getting the nucleotides to form into RNA, even hundreds of nucleobases long:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/orig/2005/00000035/00000005/00005009