Posted: Apr 15, 2010 12:43 pm
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.
No problem with that. They are tweaking the concentrations and purities to improve the chances of the desired reaction taking place. It does however mean that they are moving away from plausible conditions though.
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.
I've no doubt that it is possible to 'create the pre-life building blocks of life'.
None at all.