Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life

[curiosityandthecat]

Voila.

An 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

[PipeBox]

Curio, the article you linked to admits there are problems and it shows even the other evolutionists don't think it's likely.

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?

[curiosityandthecat]

Curio, the article you linked to admits there are problems and it shows even the other evolutionists don't think it's likely.

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.

[karadan]

I think that response was during Pipebox's christian phase

[curiosityandthecat]

I think that response was during Pipebox's christian phase

[jcm]

It doesn't matter, because it will become an example of how god made it all work.

Well the bible meant to say....

[Will]

This guy is a science rock star now. Abiogenesis theory, here we come!

[Squid]

Very cool stuff.  If ya want to read the article, here ya go:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jj4umyod2gz

[Ninteen45]

I was about to post this, damn.