RE :”Darwin dedicated only a few words of his great verbal flood to one of the biggest questions in all of biology: how life began.”
Of course not. No one knows, now one will ever know. He’d be guessing, or making stuff up
Here’s a nice video which summarizes Dr. Szostak’s work at Harvard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg
Interesting. Getting closer to some discoveries there, eh?
Darwin was interested in adaptation and natural selection...not the origins of life.
The only way we will know how life or the universe started is to invent a time machine.
This whole concept of life coming from non-living material is a pipe dream. At least the article was honest enough to concede that the conditions in the Miller-Urey simulation were not an accurate representation of the early earth environment.
I mean really, this paragraph from the article says it all:
“This failure has led scientists to consider two other hypotheses about how RNA came to be. Cleaves and others think RNA-based life may have evolved from organisms that used a different genetic material—ONE NO LONGER FOUND IN NATURE. Chemists have been able to use other compounds to build backbones for nucleotides (Science, 17 November 2000, p. 1306). They’re now investigating whether these humanmade genetic molecules, called PNA and TNA, could have emerged on their own on the early Earth more easily than RNA. According to this hypothesis, RNA evolved later and replaced the earlier molecule.”
I get it. So some mysterious material that no longer exists created the building blocks for early life. Yeah, that has to be it. I mean, it just COULDN’T be God!! That would be unthinkable.
I can’t wait to see the reactions when yet another origin of life simulation fails. I’m sure many here are crossing their fingers, waiting with baited breath, hoping against hope that something BESIDES God made life, the universe and everything! What a joyful day it will be when we finally have proof that we’re just a mass of molecules in motion with no true free will or purpose in life!!!
Cautiously he approached the gate and demanded to be let in. God then appeared on the other side and asked the man why he should be let in. Without hesitation the man stated that he was not unlike God.
God reached down picked up a handful of dirt, breathed into his hand and sat down a fig tree. The scientist not being deterred stated that it was a good trick, but with the proper lab, he too could create life. With this God presented the scientist with the most impressive laboratory ever assembled and stated, “If you can create life from dirt, I will allow you to enter into Heaven.”
The scientist smiled smugly and reached down for a handful of dirt, but there wasn't any. Looking at the perplexed man before Him, God said, “I'm sorry, but you'll have to get your own dirt.”
How Eye Glasses Formed:
In warm pool of sand minerals had been mixed by the wind or something, in just the right proportions when either lighten strikes or a volcano melted the sand into glass that cooled into lens. Then metal oxides were somehow refined and melted so they formed frames around the lens.
In some way, as yet unknown, fine sand polished the newly formed glass into bi-focals. Tri-focals and sun glasses would evolve later.
This is the Foster-Grant theory of eye grasses.
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