(January 4, 2018 at 12:29 pm)alpha male Wrote:(January 4, 2018 at 12:25 pm)Astreja Wrote: If you can't accept beginnings, it stands to reason that you won't accept anything that was based on those beginnings either.
I have come to the conclusion that no matter what we show you, you will reject it because it contradicts your mythology-suffused worldview.
I haven't rejected Urey-Miller. Yes, I accept that scientists can take certain chemicals and turn them into other chemicals in a lab. So what? I've got plenty of amino acids in my house. They don't turn into life.
Are they mixed with lipids in an environment that is, at best weakly oxidizing? Is there a significant amount of UV radiation impinging with alternating cycles of wetness and dryness? Are there claylike materials around to act like catalysts? Is the environment clear of other competing life? Are there iron sulfur materials around to help local oxidation?
I didn't think so.
