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Newmark wrote:

rainbow wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

rainbow wrote:

Newmark wrote:The question is, are the conditions still sufficiently prebiotically plausible?

Fair point!
Please define 'sufficiently prebiotically plausible'.

Please read:

Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions
Matthew W. Powner1, Béatrice Gerland1 & John D. Sutherland1
Nature 24 March 2009

Does it define 'sufficiently prebiotically plausible' in that paper?

'Sufficiently prebiotically plausible' means that you can use these conditions when you are testing what reactions that might happened on prebiotic earth, and it will be considered a good enough approximation to pass peer review. This means that they can simple be called "prebiotically plausible conditions", and that it should be a good enough approximation for any discussion conducted here. The very existence of this paper in a peer reviewed setting should be enough to make this point abundantly clear.