Theoretical origin of life; How to glue RNA to membranes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, August 13, 2015, 23:48 (3389 days ago) @ romansh

Rom: Just ignore the diatribe at the beginning. 
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> http://www.agnosticsinternational.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1819-Thank you for a great entry.-Great music. The biochemical information is correct. I've read and quoted Szostak. This is much of his research as part of a just-so story of a series of chance events in just the right order to get to life. The lipid membrane is very important because one cannot polymerize in water. Enzymes are also very important, and the video glosses over how big and complex they always are. Information developed by chance? How? Robert Shapiro, a before his death a few years ago, proposed this type of approach would not work. In his book "Origins" he did agree that sea vents are a possible source of energy, and I agree. I also agree that abiogenesis should be kept separate from evolution until life actually begins, but the two are intimately related in that the from of beginning life dictates what forms ensuing life takes in its genome mechanism, not necessarily in the phenotypes that appear.