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Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth
RE: Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth
rjh4 is back Wrote:It seems to me the "It's still hypothetical" is inconsistent with "but it's very inaccurate to say there's no known naturalists mechanism for the origin of life."

As far as I know, scientists still cannot begin with non-living matter so as to produce life. If they cannot do it in a controlled lab, why is it plausible that it would happen in nature?
There are several plausible hypotheses for the origin of life from non-living organic matter easily found on Wikipedia or with a Google search. The evidence is over 3 billion years old, so we may never know which of them is correct (or if a mechanism not yet on the list is the case), but to say there 'is no naturalistic mechanism' by which it could happen simply isn't true. A naturalistic mechanism doesn't have to be the case to be a naturalistic mechanism, it only has to be possible.

Why do you think it is plausible that we can duplicate in a matter of decades what took nature hundreds of millions of years to accomplish?

So far, scientists have made a bacteria genome from scratch and placed it in a de-nucleated cell which then started functioning again. When an entire cell can be made 'from scratch', how will it affect your opinion on the likelihood of a naturalistic mechanism for the origin of life being the correct one?
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RE: Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth - by Mister Agenda - August 10, 2017 at 10:36 am

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