RE: Some questions on evolution
May 31, 2014 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2014 at 10:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 31, 2014 at 9:48 am)vodkafan Wrote: Yes you did misunderstand the question, but thanks for trying to answer it. Yes, the air and dirt is teeming with life. But that's life that is already here, evolving, passing down DNA. Life comes from other life on a daily basis.Not that I'm aware of, no. I wonder how we might detect it if it was though...what with "new life" not being so thinly confined by our own evolutionary heritage. Our definition of life is extremely narrow..entirely derived from our own traits. In any case, as far as we can tell it's not exactly that common an occurance in any local frame of reference, especially relative to the frequency of life generating more life on this rock. Some novel new form of life would probably find itself bringing a knife to a gunfight if it wanted to set up shop in our house - we have a vicious headstart.
What I am talking about is spontaneous NEW life forms. Is there any evidence for amino acids combining, organic material organising itself starting off new life like they must have done back then 3.8 billion years ago? If not why not? This is my question.
I wonder though, why you suppose that the mechanics of life generating life now are really all thAt dissimilar from the very first spark? We're all using the pattern that intrepid first happened upon anyway...aren't we?
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