To: js1138; betty boop; Alamo-Girl
You cannot prove from first principles that chemical evolution cannot produce a replicator. It seems that research is underway. I haven't studied this stuff, but it looks serious, and the author is for real:
The Artificial Self-Replication Page.
535 posted on
01/22/2005 1:16:06 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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536 posted on
01/22/2005 1:25:23 PM PST by
balrog666
(A myth by any other name is still inane.)
To: PatrickHenry
A google search on "Synthetic self-replicating molecules" is interesting.
537 posted on
01/22/2005 1:28:05 PM PST by
js1138
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