[PatrickHenry]

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[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping! This list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and maybe other science topics like cosmology.
See the list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail me to be added or dropped.

[ikka]

THIS is science? May have, might have, etc...

[Red Badger]

Two fatty bubbles?....

[azhenfud]

"Bubbles"? Someone's been staring horizontally at the bottom of their brewsky glass for too long.

[Hoodlum91]

"Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are proposing that the first battle for survival-of-the-fittest might have played out as a simple physical duel between fatty bubbles stuffed with genetic material"

But war never solved anything

[pabianice]

You mean that "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode was right?

[pollwatcher]

Forgive my lack of knowledge here. My problem is understanding how, or even why, "bubbles" would, uh, "feel the urge" to compete.

In a strictly mechanistic viewpoint of the universe, why is there any reason for increasing order and complexity than there is for total disorder, entropy and decay after the "Big Bang?"

Why would a very particular chain of organic molecues feel "compelled," or even bother "trying," to reproduce itself? Why would a molecue "care" about "game theory?"

The only "materialist" answer I can imagine is that there is something very "special" about DNA that defies explanation by valances, or chemical and attractive forces.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Weird...but interesting...

[Lurking2Long]

Whoever knew there was so much "sex" going on during the opening of the Lawrence Welk show?!

*CHAMPAGNE POP*

[hosepipe]

How could an animal evolve to NEED toilet paper.?..
One of those things that make you go Hmmmm....
Puts a whole nother take on neantherthal grooming practices...
Must have gotten pretty ripe in those "caves"...

Oh! Well BACK TO THE ELECTION...

[Guvmint_Cheese]

I WILL NOT STAND FOR THESE CHILDREN TRYING TO PLAY GOD!



Dueling bubbles? Give me a break...

[Kornev]

This theory isn't really new entirely, only the underlined details seem to be actually new. They've done experiments with lipid bubbles forming membranes on their own for awhile now.

The interesting part is that they seem to start 'eating' spontanously at a very early stage. Next stage is getting them to split and reproduce. All with nothing more than a few common chemicals and energy. Before you know it (well, billions of years) you have bacteria, plants, animals, people.

This is pretty definitive proof that life is nothing more than a completely natural event, and probably widespread throughout the universe.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Bubbleheaded bump.

[JimRed]

The Almighty started and directed the process, regardless of what the process was.

[js1138]

And when Tweedle Beetles battle with their paddles in a bubble in a bottle,

And the bottle's on a poodle, and the poodle's eating noodles,

It's a Tweedle Beetle Noodle Poodle Bubble Bottle Paddle Battle.

[ThomasMore]

You mean this fatty bubble?

[Dimensio]

First thing that came to my mind, and I'm probably the only one who gets the reference

[Cronos]

I don't see the point of this "research" -- you can't prove it empirically or theoretically -- it would always remain speculation. Hence, there's no point in doing this -- leave the idea of creation to religion

I can agree with small-scale evolution -- wolves to dogs etc. but taking that and trying to extrapolate backwards is like taking a piece of the small toe bone of a man's skeleton and trying to picture what he looked like

[RJS1950]

What the hell, this is too good an opening, so I'll throw them both out.

Tiny bubbles....

and

I didn't know Lawrence Welk and his champagne music were that old!

[Old Professer]

"We proposed that the genetic material could drive the growth of cells just by virtue of being there,"

Somebody has to ask: How did they "get there?"