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General => Science => Topic started by: curiosityandthecat on May 13, 2009, 11:15:31 PM

Title: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: curiosityandthecat on May 13, 2009, 11:15:31 PM
Voila.

QuoteAn English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago.

He has solved a problem that for 20 years has thwarted researchers trying to understand the origin of life â€" how the building blocks of RNA, called nucleotides, could have spontaneously assembled themselves in the conditions of the primitive earth. The discovery, if correct, should set researchers on the right track to solving many other mysteries about the origin of life. It will also mean that for the first time a plausible explanation exists for how an information-carrying biological molecule could have emerged through natural processes from chemicals on the primitive earth.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14rna.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: PipeBox on May 14, 2009, 08:18:04 AM
Curio, the article you linked to admits there are problems and it shows even the other evolutionists don't think it's likely.

Quote from: "NYTimes"Dr. Sutherland’s proposal has not convinced everyone. Dr. Robert Shapiro, a chemist at New York University, said the recipe “definitely does not meet my criteria for a plausible pathway to the RNA world.” He said that cyano-acetylene, one of Dr. Sutherland’s assumed starting materials, is quickly destroyed by other chemicals and its appearance in pure form on the early earth “could be considered a fantasy.”

When will scientists stop doing all this useless research and accept the obvious truth?
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: curiosityandthecat on May 14, 2009, 02:27:55 PM
Quote from: "PipeBox"Curio, the article you linked to admits there are problems and it shows even the other evolutionists don't think it's likely.

Quote from: "NYTimes"Dr. Sutherland’s proposal has not convinced everyone. Dr. Robert Shapiro, a chemist at New York University, said the recipe “definitely does not meet my criteria for a plausible pathway to the RNA world.” He said that cyano-acetylene, one of Dr. Sutherland’s assumed starting materials, is quickly destroyed by other chemicals and its appearance in pure form on the early earth “could be considered a fantasy.”

When will scientists stop doing all this useless research and accept the obvious truth?
Hey, I'm just reporting relevant interests, here. ;)
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: karadan on May 14, 2009, 02:58:33 PM
I think that response was during Pipebox's christian phase :)
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: curiosityandthecat on May 14, 2009, 03:06:15 PM
Quote from: "karadan"I think that response was during Pipebox's christian phase :blush:
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: jcm on May 14, 2009, 06:29:44 PM
It doesn't matter, because it will become an example of how god made it all work.

Well the bible meant to say....
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: Will on May 14, 2009, 07:55:57 PM
This guy is a science rock star now. Abiogenesis theory, here we come!
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: Squid on May 15, 2009, 02:19:46 AM
Very cool stuff.  If ya want to read the article, here ya go:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jj4umyod2gz
Title: Re: Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life
Post by: Ninteen45 on May 15, 2009, 03:53:27 PM
I was about to post this, damn.