Posted: Apr 15, 2010 1:24 pm
rainbow wrote: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 question is, are the conditions still sufficiently prebiotically plausible? We've got one peer reviewed paper suggesting that they are, and your Argument from Ignorance that they are not. Guess which one I take seriously?