Posted: May 24, 2016 3:51 pm
laklak wrote:no matter how many times you explain that evolution is not abiogenesis they still don't get it. Best just to ignore them, you're not changing their 'minds'.
The first replicating oligonucleotides (in short strands of RNA or whatever its precursor was) would have been subject to the same natural selection principles as apply to actual living organisms.
These would have started to act straight away - as soon as the first replicator started replicating.
So it's slightly lazy to dismiss the creotards out of hand for not using the right words - replicator variation and selection pressure resulting in modification over time can just as validly be termed 'evolution', even if what was evolving wasn't what we'd recognise now as living cells.