(May 30, 2012 at 7:58 am)Brian37 Wrote:(May 29, 2012 at 8:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We do not know the origins of life yet. Notwithstanding that simple fact, I feel quite relaxed about dismissing your fairy tale about your god playing in the dirt.
Eventually science will come up with an answer.
You will not.
Huh? Yes we DO know the origins of life. DNA.
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DNA is the origin of life.
One would think the origin of life refers to a process, not a thing. DNA is a thing used by organisms to replicate a particular set of protein synthesis required for its own function in another organism. It is no more a process whereby life originated than Windows or Mac OS is the process whereby computers originated.
We can envision at a high level several processes that can bring about life, and some of the more pormising ones involve life without DNA as intermediate steps.
So not only is not DNA the origin of life, it is not even necessarily required for life.