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To: valkyry1
"Dr. Rebek’s findings were made in 1990"

RW - really - does the date matter?

You made the claim that self replicating molecules are impossible. You said it in more than one post. To refute that claim, all I have to do is present a logical path to such a model which conforms to all known physical laws. I did better than that, I showed you that self replicating molecules are far from impossible and have actually been produced.

You will note that none of those molecules were produced by any means other than through the processes you posted a definition of earlier.

269 posted on 11/09/2007 7:56:24 PM PST by b_sharp ("Science without intelligence is lame, religion without personal integrity is reprehensible"-Sealion)
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To: b_sharp
You: To refute that claim, all I have to do is present a logical path to such a model which conforms to all known physical laws.

Interesting.

Why does the date matter? I think that it shows that you have not shown what you thought to have shown.

Dr. Rebek announced back in 1990 that he and his team had created these ‘self replicating molecules’. But after a couple of NY Time articles etc., I can not find that much else happened with his work from him or others directly along those lines or linearly following it..

Apparently all that he produced of this substance was a small vial of it, and no one else ever got to analyze or confirm that it was what it was, or that there were not or may be other causes origins etc for how that compound came to be.

Also, other non-creationists scientists have disagreed with him and his findings, or have re characteristized amino adenosine triacid ester (AATE) as only mimicking certain process that they think happens within the cell.

It could have been yet another case of an over-exuberant scientist making a pre-mature claim.

271 posted on 11/13/2007 10:28:04 PM PST by valkyry1
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