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To: VadeRetro
A careful reader would have noticed that I specifically addressed Woese's idea that the last common ancestor was not a cellular life form but the RNA World.

An informed reader would realize that the RNA world is even more unlikely than a DNA one. The reason why there are no living things made of RNA is simply that RNA is too unstable to last very long. Also an RNA world would require the creation of a string of DNA of at least some half million bases PURELY AT RANDOM but it also requires a cell for it to get the materials to create the material for reproduction. These problems are what makes abiogenesis totally impossible.

In addition, the problem with the prokaryotes, eukaryotes and archea are nevertheless a problem for evolution because there are, in spite of the impossibility of any of them having descended from each other, there are features in more complex creatures from each of these single celled organisms.

BTW - whether you like my posting to you or not, you are posting in a public forum, and your dislike of my responses does not give you license not to have your misstatements corrected.

444 posted on 12/15/2002 8:19:41 AM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Yes, it's a public forum and you have the right to be the biggest fool that ever hit the big time. (And all you have to do is ... act natcherly!)
445 posted on 12/15/2002 8:39:09 AM PST by VadeRetro
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