(April 3, 2016 at 7:04 am)pocaracas Wrote:Thanks for that. I shall.(April 3, 2016 at 2:56 am)AJW333 Wrote: I read several of the articles but don't see how amino acid peptides self assemble into usable proteins that we see in the human body. These require complex systems to organize and self check the AA sequences in order to be usable. It is speculation to assume that these self assembling AAs observed in labs are responsible for life as we know it.
: sigh :
Weren't we dealing with abiogenesis?
Human bodies did not show up immediately after self-replicating biological molecules stepped into the picture. Why would you expect those original AAs to produce the exact proteins we have nowadays?
And yes, it will always be speculation. Even if we manage, in the lab, to go from simple molecules CO2, O2, H2, H2O, etc, to AAs, to proteins, to a self replicating entity... we will have demonstrated that the process is possible, but not that this lab-based mechanism is the one that actually happened.
So people like you will always have some wiggle room. Have fun.
