Posted: Feb 10, 2012 8:10 am
rainbow wrote:Rumraket wrote:rainbow wrote:As for natural selection, how did this apply to the first replicator?
The first relicator would be replicating itself, making errors in the process(mutations), the nature of which would subsequently be either neutral, or selectively beneficial or deleterious, depending on the environment.
Sorry, but this fails to explain how the first replicator could be formed from a mix of so-called 'building blocks'. Please tell us how this could happen. Remember if it was the first, no mutations could occur previous to its formation.
The question you're asking now is different from the one I responded to. I can't tell you how the first replicator could form, other than to say that if it was a polymer, the joining together of the individual units would have been thermodynamically favorable under the extant circumstances, otherwise it wouldn't have happened.