Scientists May Have Found How Life Began

Fox News ^ | May 14, 2009 | Fox News

[AngieGal]

British scientists said on Wednesday that they had figured out key steps in the process by which life on Earth may have emerged from a seething soup of simple chemicals, according to Agence France-Presse.

[Just mythoughts]

Well it is about time they started theorizing on the origin of their fairy tale. Now I will attempt to make a visual mental adjustment from a ‘hot’ steaming primordial pond scum to a bubbling toxic chemical dump. Chances are that with bubbling chemicals billions of cells were produced in a flash that then started attaching themselves to one another to start this wild mythical claim they attribute to natural physical ‘living’.

[AZ .44 MAG]

I think we must have passed each other by when we hit send :o)

OK, then. Belated high five!

[DTogo]

...key steps in the process by which life on Earth may have emerged from a seething soup of simple chemicals

Bullion cubes?

[taxesareforever]

may have emerged from a seething soup

From vegetable soup they found the letters "B-I-B-L-E.

[freedumb2003]

Begin with a single cell life form. Then consider billions of mutations (which are mistakes) occur that create more sophisticated and higher order life forms, where cells decide to do various functions, form limbs or wings, arms, legs until eventually a man is born. I don’t believe things mutate to superior life forms - but if we assume they did, can some one give me a probability of it occurring in the incredible spectrum of various species that now exist. They do not teach the probability associated with this theory because it would point to infeasibility. The odds don’t work. It is the backward analysis - that points to the human being and says ‘this is the only way he could have gotten here.’

Yawn. Come back when you understand the term "stochastic."

As for mutating up, the sun provides the third party energy intro to a closed system. I still do not understand how things can systematically organize themselves to get better. Things tend to tear down, wear down and break down, like a home, which constantly needs repair or it is ultimately destroyed by the elements. Homes don’t build themselves. You cannot take rock, sand, water and metal and put it into a bingo drum and turn it for one billion years under sunlight and expect an apple computer to pop out. Yet - that is what they expect you to believe is the origin of life. Matter, defying the laws of physics, arranges itself in better and better ways, first as a single celled life form then in greater mutations to eventually becoming something that looks like a Michael Dukakis.

Yawn. Your strawman, although cute as a bugs ear, doesn't even fall to the level of "oversimplification." The fact you don't understand stochastic processes and how entropy (that is the word you were looking for) does not really come into play, doesn't mean they don't happen.

Improbable if not impossible.

No, quite probable.

[GodGunsGuts]

HE is alive!

[freedumb2003]

Bullion cubes?

Mmm... Primordial chicken soup.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Scientists May Have Found How Life Began”

They’ve discovered copulation?

[DTogo]

I see a Far Side cartoon: God’s in the kitchen standing over a “seething” pot of primordial soup looking at some ingredients next to the stove top, scratching His beard and wondering what to put in next...

[Intolerant in NJ]

Now when they figure out where the soup came from, they’ll really be on to something......

[skinkinthegrass]

They’ve discovered copulation?

LOL!

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[editor-surveyor]

You still bleeding?

How are you coming on your assault on the P.E.?

[freedumb2003]

I see a Far Side cartoon: God’s in the kitchen standing over a “seething” pot of primordial soup looking at some ingredients next to the stove top, scratching His beard and wondering what to put in next...

I am seeing a shaker with little stick people in it with a label that says "just add soup"

[wheresmycheckbarry?]

I hear the local propaganda factories known as public schools are teaching that in the beginning Obammy smiled and the sun was created...then he spouted some garbage about yes he could..and poof earth...and then on the 3rd day he created oprah..then on the 4th day they created KFC coupons...and people...and on the 5th day they realized they messed up with the coupons underestimating the lengths the sheeple would go to for free chikinz..so on the 6th day they issued rainchecks....7th day he took his shirt off so all creation could gaze upon his nipples..and rested

that’s what I hear they teach...I could be wrong though

[freedumb2003]

>>How are you coming on your assault on the P.E.?

I took it this afternoon and passed with flying colors.

You still bleeding from your ears from the drubbing you keep taking? Must hurt like all get out.

[freedumb2003]

>>They’ve discovered copulation?

LOL!

[editor-surveyor]

Did you make a yummy sound?

[AZ .44 MAG]

And so are we. Thanks to Him and His Son.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[skinkinthegrass]

Now when they figure out where the soup came from, they’ll really be on to something......Kroger...Mejiers...