(May 31, 2014 at 10:32 am)Chas Wrote: Why should it be easy? It should, in fact, not be easy.
If it were easy, life would have started many times, possibly in many ways with different chemistries. But it doesn't look like it did.
We have tried to reconstruct the conditions and we have been doing those experiments in a few bottles for a few decades. Nature had the whole earth for millions of years.
Yes Chas that's a good point. Let's hope we do succeed. On the other hand I was reading an article the other day that said it had to have happened pretty quickly. Chemical reactions do happen quick. Maybe we just haven't got the soup mix right yet.
I get what you are saying about single cells and the only way is up to more cells. But I want to play devil's advocate and keep asking why. We could have just mutated to a different single celled organism instead.
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
