Origin of Life: new commentaries (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 27, 2011, 01:32 (4997 days ago) @ David Turell

After 60 years of research we are no further along than knowing what does not work. How to go from inorganic chemistry to organic (living) chemistry is as big a puzzle as ever.-
Dennis Overbye, the veteran science writer for the NY Times describes a recent confab on o-o-l, which rehashed all the old stuff, presented nothing new, and apparently ignored the inorganic energy cycle theories. What most impressed him was the RNA-world theories, which of itself sounds very reasonable, until you study it a bit and discover just how miraculously complicated would be the origin. Did the parts just fall together, or did the enzymes, the atoms, the heat, etc. just join up?-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/science/22origins.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1