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To: orionblamblam
... it is just complex chemistry.
Scientist following a known sequence, working in a lab, manipulating base pairs, is not a good argument for abiogenisis. Sounds like creationism to me. The more complexity, the less likely it is that it would be a spontaneous thing. In my opinion it is the wrong paradigm.
546 posted on 01/21/2005 2:20:28 AM PST by carumba
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To: carumba

> is not a good argument for abiogenisis.

The polio case, yes. Going from chemistry to a relatively complex virus in one step is more than a hell of a stretch for the natural world. But the poitn was that it showed that no magic or "life force" or "breath of God" was needed to turn glop into life

> The more complexity, the less likely it is that it would be a spontaneous thing.

Yes, that's why I also mentioend the Urey and Fox experiments, whech went from basic chemicals (methane, CO2 and whatnot) and produced *argueably* protoife without the scientists going in and meddlign on the molecular/genetic level. They showed the life could fairly easily form of it's own accord, depnding of course on what you considered the threshold for "alive."


552 posted on 01/21/2005 6:17:58 AM PST by orionblamblam
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