The Big Bang (Origins)

by David Turell , Monday, May 17, 2010, 18:59 (5086 days ago) @ dhw

Matt is against the assumption that life "as it exists today is functionally AND structurally identical to life at the time of origins." He goes on to argue that it's "time to stop reasoning this way. We won't find the origin of life by studying life. We'll only find it by trying to build life."
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> the origin of life as it exists today, which after all is the only form we know, is not your main focus of attention. 
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> As for the question of design v. poor design v. accident, I suspect that the same argument will be going on long after all of us have disappeared into...whatever we disappear into.-The key fact we do have is that the reproductive system of the single cell is very exact in reproduction. Error is rare and can cause mutational change, which usually is harmful, and therefore the aberrant organisms will usually die out. This exactness, which is built into every single cell, whether as a single-celled organism or a complex multi-celled organism, in general, guarantees the living stay the same. Cells constantly rerpoduce, bacteria every 20 minutes, in our bodies more slowly. It is my firm belief that what we see now is what was present in bacteria, when the apparatus was somehow initiated 3.6 byo. and its design is NOT poor