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The Statement of Chemistry on the Origin of Life
American Thinker.com ^ | September 26, 2017 | James Clinton

Posted on 11/26/2017 6:49:57 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/26/2017 6:49:57 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

and yet the worshippers at the Altar of Darwin, have no choice...they must believe in that b.s. to avoid the obvious special creation as told in the bible....


2 posted on 11/26/2017 6:55:54 AM PST by raygunfan
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Dawkins poses that genetic outliers, mutations outside the edge of the mainstream of any particular species, are responsible for the very many differences we see in plants and creatures. So it is the creature with the freakish deformity whose contribution to the gene pool creates a change in the species. Add 100,000 freaks and you end up with an orca who was once a wolf (they teach this with serious countenance).

Problem is, nature rewards stability, not instability. Genetic outliers either die due to design flaws, or are not invited to prom night when it is time to reproduce.


3 posted on 11/26/2017 6:59:21 AM PST by lurk
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The same thing that keeps amino acids bound into proteins is the same thing that keeps galaxies from flying apart.


4 posted on 11/26/2017 7:01:27 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Kaslin

From the article: “For example, the most stable state for amino acids in Nature is individual amino acids, not proteins.”

Actually, I’d expect it’s worse than that - the most stable state for amino acids in a Nature that includes an oxygen-containing atmosphere is as CO2, water and dinitrogen or some nitrogen oxide (which in the absence of life-sustaining processes, where they ultimately end up).


5 posted on 11/26/2017 7:02:09 AM PST by Stosh
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To: Kaslin
the point of equilibrium lies far over toward the side of dissolution

Which indelibly taught me "fool" and "stupid" were not synonymous, as in "the fool has said in his heart 'there is no God.'"

6 posted on 11/26/2017 7:03:37 AM PST by papertyger
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To: raygunfan

The worshipers at the Altar of Darwin have to take huge leaps of faith.


7 posted on 11/26/2017 7:05:26 AM PST by boycott
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To: raygunfan

Or it could be creation by the Participatory Anthropic Principle.


8 posted on 11/26/2017 7:11:08 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Kaslin

These scientists get too caught up in the chemistry of life. The wonder of life is the intelligent information encoded in the molecules. That information doesn’t just come out of nowhere.


9 posted on 11/26/2017 7:15:23 AM PST by libh8er
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“Why? Nature inexorably proceeds towards “equilibrium” (Chemical Equilibrium), the most stable state. For example, the most stable state for amino acids in Nature is individual amino acids, not proteins.”

And yet for the short time you are alive, you have proteins. Don’t confuse entropy with short-term concentrations of energy and order. When you see that, you can understand how short-term fluctuations over long periods of time can lead to the concentrations of more complex chemicals needed to start life.

And random mutations rarely lead to life-threatening mutations, so a land mammal, over a long period of time, can be an ancestor of an orca.


10 posted on 11/26/2017 7:25:11 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Don’t confuse entropy with short-term concentrations of energy and order.

We aren't.

You are confusing flowing water welling up on an obstacle for a river that runs uphill.

11 posted on 11/26/2017 7:30:15 AM PST by papertyger
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To: Kaslin

Thanks for posting


12 posted on 11/26/2017 7:57:04 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: VanShuyten
And random mutations rarely lead to life-threatening mutations

Name a couple of these random mutations that did not lead to a life threatening mutation. Because every single mutation I have ever heard of kills the host or makes it unlikely to survive in an unprotected environment.
13 posted on 11/26/2017 8:45:47 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Kaslin

I always thought the 2nd law of thermodynamics stated that natural processes tended toward greater randomness (entropy).

That would preclude the organization required for production of the chemicals of life.


14 posted on 11/26/2017 8:58:35 AM PST by budj (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


15 posted on 11/26/2017 9:04:31 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Kaslin; raygunfan; lurk; papertyger; VanShuyten
"In his August 1954, Scientific American article, 'The Origin of Life,' Nobel Prize winning Harvard Biologist George Wald stated,
'One only has to contemplate the magnitude of this task...' "

So here we are, 63 years later, a period when many scientific fields have grown by orders of magnitude in understanding (computers come to mind).
Has there still been no progress in "origin of life" studies?

Do Wald's words remain the last on this subject?

I think not.

16 posted on 11/26/2017 9:12:52 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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Has there still been no progress in "origin of life" studies?

None. Zero. Zip.

The Scientific/Cultural mandarins gave up on the question as unknowable and irrelevant.

17 posted on 11/26/2017 9:18:35 AM PST by papertyger
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To: Kaslin
"Primordial soup" did not begat life on planet earth.


18 posted on 11/26/2017 9:21:31 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: papertyger

again, it is given up on as ‘unknowable and irrelevant’ because it points to our creator God of the bible, and well, better the devil you know than to admit what is right in front of their atheistic lying faces...


19 posted on 11/26/2017 9:22:55 AM PST by raygunfan
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The same thing that keeps amino acids bound into proteins is the same thing that keeps galaxies from flying apart.

?????

Are you telling us that gravity keeps proteins together or are you claiming that chemical bonds keep groups of stars together?

20 posted on 11/26/2017 9:31:03 AM PST by CurlyDave
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