Posted on 12/23/2008 4:30:54 PM PST by Soliton
With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology's most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life.
RNA, the single-stranded precursor to DNA, normally expands one nucleic base at a time, growing sequentially like a linked chain. The problem is that in the primordial world RNA molecules didn't have enzymes to catalyze this reaction, and while RNA growth can proceed naturally, the rate would be so slow the RNA could never get more than a few pieces long (for as nucleic bases attach to one end, they can
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Yes.....make life and get back to me.
Now if the scientists could only figure out how those darn elements evolved!
Thank YOU!!!
But don’t count on it...they will come in droves. Some people can not take an objective look at science without mixing apples and oranges.
funny though, how they don’t reject when “evil science” keeps them alive, or helps them in other ways.
HA! Looks like a couple already made it in!
This is a science caucus. Your objection seem to be religiously motivated. Please do not insult we scientific method types by injecting religion. There is a religion forum for you.
Elements up to Fe are synthesized by nuclear fusion in stars.
I'm not a bible thumper nor a scientist.....but I have yet to see science create life. I know, "just give us more public finds".
Perhaps there is more to life...
This is a STUNNING development!
I have been here for almost 10 years, but I will soon be forced to leave because I support science over non-science. I have been warned.
And please ping me when they notify you they made “intelligent” life...the kind that has the capacity to make a clock to tell time, for example.
Thanks!
F
YOU're the one trying to peddle evoloserism on a conservative forum....
Yup. Like Sagan said, "we are star stuff!"
If you don’t believe that evolution is fact, then you are an idiot for not believing what science has proven to be true.
Please disregard the fact that this article does point out that science has NOT proven evolution to be fact.
You must believe in evolution and in man made global warming despite the fact that neither can be proven.
This is making me dizzy.
That's not right, you've posted nothing controversial...
Still waiting for a good explanation for eyes in extremely primitive organisms . . . 1/4 eyes or 1/2 eyes or 3/4 eyes would be virtually useless, so I’m still waiting for a good explanation . . . (tic, tic tic, etc) . . . still waiting
Another proponent of “white labcoat welfare.” Sorry, Bub, I was into that racket for 39 years.
The news is never all bad.... Thanks!!
whoa..are you serious?
since when does conservatism demand you believe in evolution?
Francis Crick of DNA discovery fame predicted this discovery in the 1960's
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