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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
You've got to be kidding me! You're actually pointing to the Miller-Urey experiment as "proof" for abiogenesis? Maybe you need to learn a little bit, especially about racemic mixes of amino acids and how they would be impossible to use to create bionecessary proteins.
Uuum... I'm not saying anything snoogums. I'm just pointing out that the previous moron doesn't even understand the strawman he thinks he's knocking down.
200 posted on 04/18/2008 5:13:01 AM PDT by ketsu
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To: ketsu
Uuum... I'm not saying anything snoogums. I'm just pointing out that the previous moron doesn't even understand the strawman he thinks he's knocking down.

Actually, you are saying something. In your attempt to disprove that other poster's point (can't remember who it was right this sec), you posted a link to a Wikipedia article about the Miller-Urey experiment, presumably because you thought that this "proves" that "lightning can make amino acids", contra what the other poster said.

While it is "technically" true that an electric arc can generate rudimentary amino acids, it produces a racemic mix (among the various other scientific problems with trying to transfer the M-U results to an hypothesis about the supposed early earth) which would be completely unusable from a biological perspective. Hence all the nonsense about "directing clays" and "crystals which selected for handedness" and all that other speculation which has proven unsupported by laboratory investigation.

204 posted on 04/18/2008 5:27:19 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Hey they come boys! As thick as grass, and as black as thunder!)
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