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What Caused Life to Come Into Existence?
PJ Media ^
| August 25, 2017
| Edward Watson
Posted on 08/25/2017 7:42:24 AM PDT by Raymond Pamintuan
It has become axiomatic that life naturally evolved out of nonliving materials billions of years ago. Given enough time and the chemical opportunity, living cells self-assemble.
However, the experts on the development of complex molecules from simpler ones, the synthetic chemists, do not know how this process actually occurs. There are no known pathways to create the components that make up a living cell from nonliving matter. They have no idea how amino acids (the building blocks of proteins and enzymes), nucleotides (the building blocks of DNA and RNA), saccharides (also called carbohydrates or sugars, the scaffolding for DNA and RNA, energy sources, and much more), and lipids (the main constituents of cell membranes) can be formed naturally on a prebiotic earth, especially before the formation of biological enzymes, to catalyze many of the requisite chemical reactions.
Life arising naturally out of nonliving materials not only cannot be proven, it contradicts synthetic chemistrys practices, which comprise of very strict purity and environmental controls as well as experimental and sequential methodologythe exact opposite of what happens in naturebecause contamination, water, sunlight, oxygen, heat, and impurities all degrade complex molecules or prevent them from forming.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: abiogenesis; aliens; atheism; bigbang; god; life; magic; randomness
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To: bar sin·is·ter
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posted on
08/27/2017 12:30:55 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: SirLurkedalot
Who would get the job done faster?
Chimps with 98% of the same DNA as humans;
or...
1,000 Miss Teen Americas??
122
posted on
08/27/2017 12:32:58 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: ctdonath2
As an engineer, Im interested in the answer to the legitimate question.As an engineer; you will get LOT's of answers here. Most of them will say, "God".
123
posted on
08/27/2017 12:34:12 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Delta 21
Einstien liked to do mind experiments.
Image this:
A giraffe with varicose veins in it’s neck...
124
posted on
08/27/2017 12:35:50 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Red Badger
Better call Saul; for the NFL will be suing you soon!
125
posted on
08/27/2017 12:36:34 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: ClearCase_guy
It only takes ONE zero in the equation to make ‘life’ unobtainable.
126
posted on
08/27/2017 12:37:34 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: catnipman
I’d say that bootie shaking has caused more life to form than beaker shakin’!
127
posted on
08/27/2017 12:39:41 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: DuncanWaring
If it split in two; wouldn’t it then be HALF the size?
128
posted on
08/27/2017 12:40:55 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Moonman62; Utah Binger
129
posted on
08/27/2017 12:47:51 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Red Badger
Better yet- ask WHAT went ‘bang’, where did the ‘bang’ object come from and where was it?
130
posted on
08/27/2017 12:48:58 PM PDT
by
ClearBlueSky
(ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
To: VaeVictis
DNA is far more complex than computer code, but since we know computer code creates itself, so can DNA.Let's try a little experiment: DNA is said to chance in response to external stimuli changing. So what if I merely change one random bit in a complex; no; SIMPLE computer program.
What are the odds that the effect will create a functioning program?
What are the odds it'll create a BETTER functioning program??
131
posted on
08/27/2017 12:51:12 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: jonno
Morning Lisa
132
posted on
08/27/2017 12:55:17 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: minnesota_bound
133
posted on
08/27/2017 12:57:04 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: NorthMountain
HEY!
134
posted on
08/27/2017 12:59:13 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
I get dizzy just standing up some times. A giraffe has 7 or 8 reservoirs (scavenger pumps) in its neck, in addition to its main heart in its chest, that are used for control of rapid increase/decrease of blood pressure cause its ,like 30' up there to his brain!
Some of the magical anti-vericose vein DNA must missed the human genome.
I really hate it when that happens.
135
posted on
08/27/2017 12:59:18 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(AntiFa and BLM should be on the United States list of Terrorist Organizations)
To: RegulatorCountry
I don't know about ALL the way down; but these dudes go clear to the EDGE!!
136
posted on
08/27/2017 1:05:06 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Moonman62
“They have no more wine.”
137
posted on
08/27/2017 1:06:47 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: newgeezer
Signs in the sky.
HMMMmmm...
138
posted on
08/27/2017 1:07:23 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: daniel1212
A rose by any other name... ...would be called something else.
139
posted on
08/27/2017 1:08:27 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Moonman62
...although there are more plausible explanations than a miracle.This made my ears itch!
140
posted on
08/27/2017 1:09:05 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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