Posted: Apr 15, 2010 11:49 am
trubble76 wrote:As far i understand experiments which try to recreate Early-Earth conditions to examine abiogenisis-related hypotheses such as we have here, the biggest stumbling block is the fact that in the real conditions, these reactions may have taken hundreds of thousands of years to get started, clearly we do not have that amount of time with which to duplicate the process. Therefore working with pure versions of ingredients that probably weren't as pure in real life is a method used to cut experiment time down from 100,000 years to something a little more managable. The point, i believe, is to show that given similar ingredients and conditions, the same reactions can be shown in the lab, thereby demonstrating that it's possible to create the pre-life building blocks of life, and by extension brings convincing evidence of abiogenisis a step closer.
This is a good summary. Unfortunately, rainbow does not yet appear to have grasped that there is a difference between what happens in the environment you are supposed to test, and what steps has been taken achieve this environment under workable conditions.