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Let's hear from a few in the Scientific Community what they think about how life originated.
It is obvious to see that people who trust in natural processes and conditions for the origin of Life are stumped at how Life on earth came about. The best they can do is use logic,scientific principles, and use their Iimagination (I.e. guess).
God is not even a part of the equation. Does this make these scientists godless?
Let's hear from a few in the Scientific Community what they think about how life originated.
Planets, Minerals and Lifes Origin
S TEVEN A. B ENNER 1,2
1 Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, PO Box 13174, Gainesville FL 32604
2 The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology, 720 SW 2 nd Ave., Gainesville FL 32601
Four paradoxes stand astride any effort to understand how life originated on Earth:
(a) The Tar Paradox. Organic molecules, given energy and left to themselves, devolve into complex mixtures, asphalts better suited for paving roads than supporting Darwinian evolution. Any scenario for origins requires a way to allow organic material to escape this devolution into a Darwinian existence, where replication with imperfections, where the imperfections are themselves heritable, allows natural selection to avoid a tarry fate.
(b) The Water Paradox: Water is commonly believed to be essential for life. So are biopolymers, like RNA, DNA, and proteins. However, the biopolymers that we know find water corrosive. Any scenario for origins must manage the apparent need of life for a substance (water) this is inherently toxic to life.
(c) The Single Biopolymer Paradox. Even if we can make biopolymers prebioically, it is hard to imaging making two or three (DNA, RNA, proteins) at the same time. At the same time, genetics versus catalysis place different demands on the behavior of a single biopolymer intended to support life.
Catalytic biopolymers should fold, for example, while genetic biopolymers should not fold. Catalytic biopolymers should contain many building blocks; genetic biopolymers should contain few.
(d) The Probability Paradox. Some biopolymers, like RNA, strike a reasonable compromise between the needs of genetics and the needs of catalysis. However, emerging data suggests that RNA is more likely to deliver catalytic power that destroys RNA than catalytic power that makes RNA.
This talk will review experimental data that makes suggestions about early planetary environments and mineralogy that might avoid, mitigate, and possibly resolve certain of these paradoxes. Key are the presence of minerals, including borates and molybdates, that interact with organic species that are intermediates between atmospheric carbon dioxide and dinitrogen and RNA. Productive interaction requires as well a subaerial environment having only intermittent interaction with water. Recent data suggests that such environments might even be found today on Mars.
It is obvious to see that people who trust in natural processes and conditions for the origin of Life are stumped at how Life on earth came about. The best they can do is use logic,scientific principles, and use their Iimagination (I.e. guess).
God is not even a part of the equation. Does this make these scientists godless?
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