I understand, now, that you insist the theory of evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. I s'pose if someone found writings by Stephen Jay Gould that attempted to explain the origins of life you might not even accept that...but nevertheless I am no longer concerned with attempting to engage a closed trap mind.
Here, instead are the publications by educated evolutionists discussing their theories on the origins of life.
Wrong on every account. Evolution does not try to explain the origin of life.
Really. Tell that to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and the editors of their magazine. This big article sure looks like an attempt to trace evolutionary biologists attempts to explain the origin of life.
"The Origins of Life
Or even this ten-year old web page listing the publication of several attempts by evolutionists to explain the origin of life:
The Origins and Early Evolution of Life
I'll re-create the page here for people interested...the page seems to be very old, with few updates....I do want to note it bears the URL address of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
on the origin and early evolution of life on the Earth.
Updated April, 1997.
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Message From the Editor:
In recent years, the origin and early evolution of life has seen an unprecedented development. New theories concerning the origins of life such as cometary sources of organics, the possible role of marine hydrothermal systems on the chemistry of the primitive earth and the postulate of the RNA world have brought many new scientists to the field of origins of life. It is the role of "Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere" to bring these articles together in one journal. While any scientific study related to the origin of life has its place in the journal, the main interests revolve around theoretical and experimental studies dealing with planetary atmospheres, interstellar chemistry, precambrian studies, prebiotic chemistry, and early evolution.
Since its first publication in 1968 when it was entitled Space Life Sciences, from 1974 to 1983 when it was called Origins of Life and from 1984 to the present as "Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere", it has continued to publish special issues and papers dealing with important topics dealing with the origin and early evolution of life. For example, recent special issues of the Journal include "Marine Hydrothermal Systems," "Comets and the Origins and Evolution of Life," "Water in the Solar System and its Role in Exobiology and "RNA and the Origins of Life. " In addition, OLEB publishes the abstracts from the triennial meetings of the International Society of the Study of the Origins of Life as well as key papers from these meetings. The breadth of coverage is exemplified by the titles of recent papers including:
- "Archean Geochemistry of Formaldehyde and Cyanide and the Oligomerization of Cyanohydrin," T. Arrhenius, G. Arrhenius and W. Paplawsky.
- "Hydrothermal and Oceanic pH. Conditions of Possible Relevance to the Origin of Life," Gordon Macloud, Christopher McKeown, Alan J. Hall and Michael Russell.
- "Chloroflexus Aurantiacus and Ultraviolet Radiation: Implication for Archean Shallow-Water Stromatolites," Beverly K. Pierson, Heather K. Mitchell and Alyson L. Ruff-Roberts.
- "The Phylogeny of tRNA Molecules and the Origin of the Genetic Code", M. DiGiulio.
- "Chemistry of Potentially Prebiological Natural Products," A. Eschenmoser.
- "Nucleotide-Analogs Based on Pentaerythritol - A Hypothesis," Alan W. Schwartz.
- "Enantioselective Autocatalysis. Spontaneous Resolution and the Prebiotic Generation of Chirality," William A. Bonner.
- "On the Reaction of 2-Aminopropionitrile in Aqueous Media," Katsuhiro Kawashiro, Shigeaki Seno, Shigeru Sugiyama and Hiromu Hayashi.
- "Electrical Energy Sources for Organic Synthesis on the Early Earth," Christopher Chyba and Carl Sagan.
- "Comet Halley as an Aggregate of Interstellar Dust and Further Evidence for the Photochemical Formation of Organics in the Interstellar Medium," R. Briggs, G. Ertem, J. P. Ferris, J. M. Greenberg, P. J. McCain, C. X. Mendoza-Gomez and W. Schutte.
- "Hydrothermal and Oceanic pH. Conditions of Possible Relevance to the Origin of Life," Gordon Macloud, Christopher McKeown, Alan J. Hall and Michael Russell.
Jim Ferris
THE ORIGINS FORUM
November, 1996. The Origins home page invites readers to participate in a forum in which topics having general interest for our field will be discussed. Please send your responses to Dave Deamer (deamer@hydrogen.ucsc.edu) who is editing the home page. Selected comments will be published in the January 1997 update of the home page, at which time a new discussion topic will be introduced. Please expect a certain amount of editing as required by space considerations.
Discussion Topic 2. Please comment on the recent evidence (ALH84001 Mars meteorite) that microorganisms existed on Mars approximately 3.6 billion years ago.
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
Fifth Chemical Congress of North America
Symposium #629: Origins of Organic Matter in the Early Earth: Endogenous vs. Exogenous Sources
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
November 11-15, 1997
Organizers: R. Navarro Gonzalez, R.K. Khanna, V. Basiuk
Scope: Life on Earth evolved as a result of a process of chemical evolution from simple precursors (HCN, HCHO, etc.) to prebiotic molecules (amino acids, purines, pyrimidines, sugars) and eventually to self-replicating molecules. Current geochemical models for the early Earth suggest that synthesis of organic matter may not have been as favorable as previously thought. This immediately raises the question as to the origin of organic matter necessary for the emergence of life. An alternative view is that complex organics were brought to Earth without a significant chemical degradation ready for the next stage of chemical evolution. The purpose of this symposium will be to address this topic and to try to assess the relative contributions of endogenous (synthesized on Earth) and exogenous (extraterrestrial delivery) sources of the organic matter necessary for the appearance of life. The symposium will be organized into two sessions beginning in an afternoon and ending in the morning of the next day. It will consist of 15 invited speakers and contributed papers in the form of oral and poster presentations.
IF INTERESTED IN ATTENDING, PLEASE RESPOND BY FAX OR E-MAIL TO:
Prof. Vladimir Basiuk
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Circuito Exterior C.U., A.Postal 70-543,
04510 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Fax: (52-5) 616 2233
e-mail: basiuk@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
Papers Published in Vol. 26, #1, 1996
- Catalysis of the Oligomerization of O-Phosphoserine, Aspartic or Glutamic Acid by Cationic Micelles. C. Boheler, A. R. Hill and L. E. Orgel
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- Phosphorylation of Glyceric Acid in Aqueous Solution Using Trimetaphosphate. V. Kolb and L.E. Orgel.
- Phosphorylation of Glyceric Acid in Aqueous Solution Using Trimetaphosphate. V. Kolb and L.E. Orgel.
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- Potentially Prebiotic Syntheses of Condensed Phosphates. A.D. Keefe and S.L. Miller
- Potentially Prebiotic Syntheses of Condensed Phosphates. A.D. Keefe and S.L. Miller
- Enantioselective Autocatalysis IV. Implications for Parity Violations Effects. W. A. Bonner
- Response of Bacillus subtilus Spores to Dehydration and UV Irradiation at Extremely Low Temperatures. K. Dose and A. Klein
- Origins of Life: SA Comparison of Theories and Applications to Mars. L. Davis and C.P.McKay
- A Review of Conditions Effecting the Radiolysis Due to 40K on Nucleic Acid Bases and Their DerivativesAdsorbed on Clay Minerals. F.G. Mosqueira, G. Albarran and A. Negron-Mendoza
Papers Published in Vol. 26, #2, 1996
- A Search for Interstellar Oxiranecarbonitrile (C3H3NO). J. E. Dickens, W. M. Irvine, M. Ohishi, G. Arrhenius, S. Pitch, A. Bauder, F. Müller and A. Eschenmoser
- Was Ferrocyanide a Prebiotic Reagent? A. D. Keefe and S. L. Miller
- Possible Role of Volcanic Ash-Gas Clouds in the Earth's Prebiotic Chemistry. V. A. Basiuk and R. Navarro-Gonzalez
- Organic Sulfur Compounds Resulting from FeS, H2S or HCl and CO2. W. Heinen and A.M. Lauwers
- Oligomerization of Uridine Phosphorimidazolides on Montmorillonite: A Model for the Prebiotic Synthesis of RNA on Minerals. P.Z. Ding, K. Kawamura and J.P. Ferris
Papers Published in Vol. 26, #3-5, 1996
- Abstracts (over 200) of the papers presented at the 1996 International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life Meeting in Orleans, France.
Papers Published in Vol. 26, #6, 1996
- Oligomerization of Negatively-Charged Amino Acids by Carbonyldiimidazole. A. R. Hill and L. E. Orgel
- Simultaneous Formation of Peptides and Nucleotides from N-Phosphothreonine. W. Zhou, Y. Ju, Y. Zhao, Q. Wang, and G. Luo
- 2-Aminopropionitrile Polymer. I. The Hydrolyzate of the Basic Fraction. S. Morimoto, K. Kawashiro, M. Watanabe, and A. Ohsaki
- The
-Sheets of Proteins, The Biosynthetic Relationships Between Amino Acids, and the Origin of the Genetic Code. M. Di Gulio
- Book Review: What is Life? The Next Fifty Years. Speculations on the Future of Biology, M. P. Murphy and L. A. J. O'Neill, Reviewed by A. G. Cairns-Smith.
Papers Published in Vol. 27, #1, 1997
- Origin of the Biologically Important Elements. Virginia Trimble (vtrimble@astro.umd.edu)
- Circumstellar and Interstellar Synthesis of Organic Molecules. Xander Tielens and S.B. Charnley (tielens@dusty.arc.nasa.gov)
- Detection of Organic Matter in Interstellar Grains. Yvonne Pendleton (PENDLETON@galileo.arc.nasa.gov)
- The Nature and Evolution of Interstellar Ices. Jean Chiar (chiar@charon.phys.rpi.edu)
- The Search for Interstellar Glycine. Lew Snyder (snyder@astro.uiuc.edu)
- The Origin of Low Mass Stars. Bruce Wilking (brucew@bok.umsl.edu)
- Analogs of the Early Solar System. Dave Koerner (davidk@coma.jpl.nasa.gov)
- The Early Solar System. Mike Gaffey (gaffem@rpi.edu)
- Physics and Chemistry of the Solar Nebula. Jonathan Lunine (jlunine@LPL.Arizona.EDU)
- Chemical Evolution in the Atmosphere of Titan: Comparison to the Prebiotic Earth. David Clarke and Jim Ferris (ferrij@rpi.edu)
- Is Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Relevant to the Origin of Life on Earth? D.C. Whittet (doug@whittet.phys.rpi.edu)
- Interstellar Ices Studied with the Infrared Space Observatory. D.C. Whittet (doug@whittet.phys.rpi.edu)
- The Search for Life on Mars. Chris McKay ( mckay@galileo.arc.nasa.gov)
- Habital Zones Around Low Mass Stars and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life. Jim Kasting (kasting@essc.psu.edu)
Papers Accepted for Publication
- Emergence of Template-and-Sequence-Directed (TSD) Syntheses: I. A Bio-Geochemical Model. N. Lahav and S. Nir
- Evolutionary Consideration on 5-Aminolevuliniate Synthase in Nature. T. Oh-Hama
- Attempted Prebiotic Synthesis of Pseudouridine. J. Dworkin
- N-Carbamoyl-
-Amino Acids Rather Than Free Amino Acid Formation in the Primitive Hydrosphere: A Novel Proposal for the Emergence of Prebiotic Peptides. J. Taillades, I. Beuzelin, L. Garrel, V. Tabacik, C. Bied, A. Commeyras
- Ultraviolet Radiation from F and K Stars and Implications for Planetary Habitability. J. F. Kasting, D. C. B. Whittet and William R. Sheldon
- Photosynthesis and the Origin of Life. H. Hartman
- Dimerization in Highly Concentrated Solutions of Phosphorimidazolide Activated Mononucleotides. A. Kanavarioti
- Prebiotic Transamination. J. C. Bishop, S. D. Cross and T. G. Waddell
- Extraterrestrial Organic Matter: A Review. W. M. Irvine
- Primary Sources of Phosphorous and Phosphates in Chemical Evolution. E. Macia, M. V. Hernandez, and J. Oro
- Studies on the Lead-Catalyzed Synthesis of Aldopentoses. G. Zubay
- Condensation of Glycylglycine to Oligoglycine with Trimetaphosphate in Aqueous Solution II. Catalytic Effect of Magnesium Ion. Y. Yamagata and K. Inomata
- Modelling of the Prebiotic Synthesis of Oligopeptides: Silicate Caytalysts Help To Overcome the Critical Stage. K. I. Zamarev, V. N. Rommanikov, R. I. Salganik and W. A. Wlassoff
- Formaldehyde in Hot Springs. D. E. Ingmanson
Special Issues in Progress:
Papers from the ISSOL Meeting on the Origin of Life, July 7-12, 1996, Orleans, France
Mars: Early Environment and the Origins of Life. Special Editor, Jack Farmer, NASA Ames, email: jack_farmer@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov
BTW, macroevolution has never been demonstrated.