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Posted on 11/09/2009 4:17:24 PM PST by IronKros
NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life.
Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for uracil, part of a genetic code found in ribonucleic acid (RNA). RNA is central to protein synthesis, but has many other roles.
"We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space," said Michel Nuevo, research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. "We are showing that these laboratory processes, which simulate occurrences in outer space, can make a fundamental building block used by living organisms on Earth."
(Excerpt) Read more at astrobio.net ...
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:) I found it very interesting.
This is BLASPHEMY!. Only intelligently designed chemicals can form uracil. AUG! no UGA!
What happens to RNA under UV?
Putting together molecules in a lab sounds like intelligent design to me.
The hysterically funny thing is that when science, with great effort, has produced life from non-life, it will be touted as proof that life came about by accident.
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