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To: antiRepublicrat
But if you're talking about "life" then a cell would probably be the most basic since viruses probably came later.

Thank you. I only have high school biology as a background.

Next question... How would a "cell" generate, or "form" a cell wall, a nucleus, and all else needed to support itself, and be mobile? By what known ( and OBSERVED) means could this happen?

267 posted on 06/28/2008 2:58:23 PM PDT by WVKayaker (Your mileage may vary.)
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To: WVKayaker

How can a star be formed. Remember... use only observed means. None of that there high faluting fancy shmancy theory and physics.


279 posted on 06/28/2008 3:22:33 PM PDT by Bogey78O (Don't call them jihadis. Call them irhabis. Tick them off, don't entertain their delusion.)
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To: WVKayaker
How would a "cell" generate, or "form" a cell wall, a nucleus, and all else needed to support itself, and be mobile?

Mobility isn't required for life. At simplest you need RNA, a membrane (cell wall) and metabolism. It's been found that fatty acids will form a membrane in the right pH and nucleotides will move into and out of the vesicle. A certain type of clay is known to both activate the generation of that membrane and polymerize RNA from those nucleotides.

299 posted on 06/28/2008 6:30:21 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: WVKayaker

BTW, yes, I was waiting for this eventual irreducible complexity question based on your question in #250. Please don’t try such an obvious set-up again. At least make it challenging to detect.


300 posted on 06/28/2008 6:32:50 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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