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To: donh
I have represented the 12 or so most common suggestions as to how naturalistic abiogenesis could occur.

Each time I say abiogenesis is impossible you argue with me. Now all I want from you is to show me one single theory which can resolve the following problems with abiogenesis - and explain how it surmounts them:

1. the problem of arranging some 500,000 pairs of DNA in exactly the correct way to make life possible.
2. the chicken - egg problem - you need DNA for life to exist, however, you need the products of DNA - the proteins, etc, in order to have an organism and for DNA to be able to work.
3. the DNA/RNA symbolism problem. You cannot have life without DNA coding for the amino acids which RNA translates into the amino acids which make the proteins of life. There is no chemical or other reason for the translation of these codes into specific amino acids. It is purely conventional as our letters represent sounds. So your theory also has to answer to how RNA was taught to interpret the DNA code.

Let's see you (or anyone else here) take up the challenge.

1,274 posted on 05/12/2003 7:13:38 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Each time I say abiogenesis is impossible you argue with me.

For me to argue with you, you'd have to actually pay attention. I have yet to see your proof, or even your hint, as to why I should suppose prokariotes, which is what you are describing, could only have sprung up out of organic junk instantaneously.

1,302 posted on 05/13/2003 10:18:59 AM PDT by donh
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