I like your enthusiasm & vigorous pursuit of understanding. Your posts make us stop and think to double-check on our own understandings of things....
The above fantastically-demanding membrane scenario shows: (a.) an appreciation of the present end-result of ~4 billion years of evolution; & (b.)...
Horse puckey. I understood your Latinism perfectly well, so there's no need to be patronising, either back then or now. You seem to have precious...
Obtuseness personified; of course Darwin couldn't possibly have known anything of genetics in the 1800s. He died still wanting to know about...
And as for above insistence on some kind of supposed fundamental CE problem with prebiotic membrane formation, I'd recommend that those arguing for...
As you must well know, but have tried to adroitly avoid admitting, Darwinism essentially requires genetics, and therefore it requires some kind of a...
As you seem to be afraid to admit, the RNA World model actually solves both the genetic & the catalytic root problems of all of CE in one go. It'd...
Poppycock, Monsieur. They merely appear to be "too complicated" and frustrating for you to be able to readily conceive of a mechanism for their...
Nobody's said that the postulated populations of RNA-type oligomers in the RNA World would've had to have been similar in sequence; so Darwinism...
(1.) On what rational grounds do you say that the NAs were "almost certainly not involved in abiogenesis"? (2.) As one with an apparently deep...
Yes, let's assume rock solidity (i.e., lab-demonstrable). As far as affecting those with serious Genesis-type adherences, one wouldn't want to...
Well, I'd say that following the stunning discoveries of ribozymes (early 1980s) and the XRD revelations of the ribosomal active-site (early 2000s),...
To come back to what we're actually humbly after in the field of CE, it's a full theory of at least one rational (scientifically orthodox) way in...
Am more than happy to have you badger exchemist on all of these matters. Adherents of ID/creationism are as credulous & as gullible as those who'd...
You & others are certainly free to carry on believing in ID/creationism if you like, no problem; just don't try to shove any of it down my throat,...
Now that I feel comfortable on this website, please could I beg the thread's indulgence here to briefly 'change tack,' in order to entertain...
Well Chemistry's my favourite subject, of course, but I've done a bit of geoscience & crystallography, too. Hazen started out as a crystallographer,...
My particular focus is right back at the nexus between non-living matter on the prebiotic early Earth, and the first recognisable stages of incipient...
Well I for one appreciate your positive enthusiasm in this thread.
I like biological things that are simple, functional, & ubiquitous, so it sounds like MTs could qualify to be of significance to the CE story. The...
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