(April 10, 2018 at 1:52 am)Huggy74 Wrote: I would argue that life only comes from life. This is a fact not a claim.
It has never been observed or demonstrated that life can spawn from non-life, therefore making abiogenesis a claim for which no evidence exists.
Sure, if that argument comes along you can say that there are stuff that are not alive and not exactly dead, like viruses who only have RNA, so it's reasnable to assume that DNA evolved from RNA since an activated RNA actually builds DNA.
RNA and DNA are both made of many-times repeated components called nucleotides. Researchers have shown how RNA nucleotides could have formed naturally in conditions now expected of the prebiotic Earth. In a Wired.com article, biochemist Adam Johnson notes:
"The amino acid precursors formed in a plume and concentrated along tidal shores. They settled in the water, underwent further reactions there, and as they washed along the shore, became concentrated and underwent further polymerization events."
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/forgotten-exper/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
