Posted: Mar 29, 2010 9:57 am
byofrcs wrote:rainbow wrote:byofrcs wrote:rainbow wrote:byofrcs wrote:
That doesn't make sense unless there was some kind of competition in space to select for the chemicals to cause then to evolve to RNA.
How could they evolve into RNA on Earth?
Was there a simpler replicator first?
If so, what was it?
No, the question is how could they not evolve ?. What possible mechanism would be used instead of the process of natural selection ? The alternatives presented to date are just plain silly. So thus there was a simpler replicator and the job is now to find it.
I suspect we won't see it around much today any more than we see scaffolding around buildings except when they are under construction.
Am I then correct in taking this as there was a simpler replicator, but we have no clue as to what it was?
That is a good bet and there are clues as to what it is. The key is self-organization being an inherent property of all matter. The problem is the sheer choice. There won't be one magic reaction or set of chemicals but a long chain of reactions, with different chemicals, reactions and most importantly without any pre-planned direction that it will take.
So we just have to backtrack the maze from B back to A and we should eventually show the path that was taken from A to B so many years ago. In an accelerated environment I'm also confident we can repeat this. That is the end of ID and creationists have to move back to navel gazing cosmogony - both out of space and out of time - where they should have stayed in the first place.
Nah, they'll just go back to claiming it's wrong because the peanutbutter experiment proves it.
