At least that's his aim.
http://www.jsystchem.com/content/2/1/1
I find the idea of a general theory of evolution very intriguing, given the result of some of the tests.
It's not lost on me the irony of some creatard's tendencies to mix the theory of evolution and abiogenesis. Of course, where their conclusions (if you can call them that) are unfounded, Addy and his team are laying the ground work.
Not being a chemist, biologist, or a systems chemist, I really have to lend myself to this literature, so I wanted to get a conversation going to help suss it out. It's quite a bit of reading, but I want to hear if anything strikes you about these ideas.
http://www.jsystchem.com/content/2/1/1
I find the idea of a general theory of evolution very intriguing, given the result of some of the tests.
Quote:Such a theory, first and foremost, rests on a basic assumption: that the physicochemical principles responsible for abiogenesis, the so-called chemical phase - the stage in which inanimate matter complexified into a simple living system - are fundamentally the same as those responsible for biological evolution, though for the biological phase these principles are necessarily dressed up in biological garb
It's not lost on me the irony of some creatard's tendencies to mix the theory of evolution and abiogenesis. Of course, where their conclusions (if you can call them that) are unfounded, Addy and his team are laying the ground work.
Quote:a molecular replicating system, Qβ RNA, when reacted with activated nucleotides in the presence of the appropriate replicase, underwent a process of replication, mutation, selection, evolution, in striking analogy to biological systems. The RNA oligonucleotide, originally some 4200 bases in length, replicated, mutated and evolved into a much shorter oligonucleotide chain just 17% of the original length, that replicated much faster than the original chain.
Not being a chemist, biologist, or a systems chemist, I really have to lend myself to this literature, so I wanted to get a conversation going to help suss it out. It's quite a bit of reading, but I want to hear if anything strikes you about these ideas.
