Posted on 01/09/2009 10:46:53 AM PST by Coyoteman
A new molecule that performs the essential function of life - self-replication - could shed light on the origin of all living things.
If that wasn't enough, the laboratory-born ribonucleic acid (RNA) strand evolves in a test tube to double itself ever more swiftly.
"Obviously what we're trying to do is make a biology," says Gerald Joyce, a biochemist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He hopes to imbue his team's molecule with all the fundamental properties of life: self-replication, evolution, and function.
Joyce and colleague Tracey Lincoln made their chemical out of RNA because most researchers think early life stored information in this sister molecule to DNA. And unlike the stuff of our genomes, RNA molecules can catalyse chemical reactions.
"We're trying to jump in at the last signpost we have back there in the early history of life," Joyce says.
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(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
How did you derive a 6k age for the Earth?
[[6,000 years ago? That claim is refuted by mountains of scientific evidence]]
Nice try- the ONLY thing they use to ‘refute it with’ is a priori assumptions- But you bleeive what you like
[[scientific evidence spread by all the creationist’s websites, isn’t going to change that.]]
Sure it does- you just don’t accept any of it because you have already made up your mind, and you put your faith in dating methods that can’t be trusted out past 10,000 or so.
[[You believe what you want, but don’t call it science.]]
Why not? It’s more scientific than what you claim! By a far shot!
[[You ignore the evidence of the world around you,]]
What evidence?
Put on your hip waders; its running deep in here !!!!!Unfortunately, Coyoteman has asked that I not post to him.
So coyote, are you saying everytime you check the Bible is a lie
Reminds me of the joke where God says, “No, no, no, you get your own dirt.”
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