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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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To: donh
I have yet to see your proof,

You have - in the very post you are responding to. Science has determined that all the below are essential for a living organism. I asked you to show me a theory that surmounts all these problems of life arising from non-life. You cannot even give me a theory of how such a thing could be possible, so yes, I have proven my point. Here it is again in case you wish to address the challenge instead of avoiding it:

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.

1,329 posted on 05/13/2003 6:39:48 PM PDT by gore3000
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