Evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, January 11, 2009, 17:03 (5583 days ago) @ George Jelliss


> Is this chance or law? It looks quite mechanical to me. - 
This is the first article I have seen in five years with this kind of an advance. The previous work found an RNAzyme that replicated with 95% accuracy, totally unsatisfactory for the theory. My problem in thinking about this as an encouraging sign for an RNA world theory is that it takes two molecules, very complex organic molecules, that have to form in steps from inorganic material and then find each other in order to work together. I come back to probability odds against this by chance. But as Stuart Kauffman contends, perhaps self-organization is built in by law.