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To: Kaslin

He brings up points that I’ve thought about for a long time, but I like my questioning better.

1. The Origin of life.
Let’s say we accept that life burst into being from a primeval soup. That is, the temperature, the atmospheric pressure, the chemical mixture, etc. was just right so that a living creature was formed from it, a single-cell, very basic creature.

Here’s my question: How did these creatures make the leap from being a one-time occurrence that lives briefly and then dies out to being able to reproduce themselves and maintain the population after the primeval soup is different?

2. The Origin of Advanced Life Forms.
Suppose there are creatures that can reproduce copies of themselves. How did these creatures make the leap such that reproduction requires a sexual mating? And the creatures can’t go back to not needing a mate for reproduction? And why are there no creatures that require 3 (or more) different individuals to produce one new creature with the variations that would occur from requiring the multiple individuals?


22 posted on 05/17/2022 8:11:56 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

Another question along those lines: the Earth is huge compared to primordial life so why didn’t different combinations of base pairs evolve into different types of RNA and then DNA and then animals with different DNA?


26 posted on 05/17/2022 8:23:38 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: libertylover
Here’s my question: How did these creatures make the leap from being a one-time occurrence that lives briefly and then dies out to being able to reproduce themselves and maintain the population after the primeval soup is different?

Who says they succeeded the very first time?

The same or similar processes were probably going on at numerous different volcanic vents ("Black Smokers") or on clathrates or in some other micro-environments during the vast Archæan Eon for hundreds of millions of years before one managed to achieve sustainability. Countless populations undoubtedly arose and perished before the "right" metabolic path was finally found.

(And always with the "Straw-Manning!")

Suppose there are creatures that can reproduce copies of themselves. How did these creatures make the leap such that reproduction requires a sexual mating? And the creatures can’t go back to not needing a mate for reproduction? And why are there no creatures that require 3 (or more) different individuals to produce one new creature with the variations that would occur from requiring the multiple individuals?

Oh, this one is easy-peasy!

The assumptions implicit in your questions - actually, some of them are explicit - are simply WRONG! As in: You're mistaken!

There are species that have more than two sexes, for instance. And some vertebrate species that once had two sexes have reverted to parthenogenesis ("Virgin Birth") - the males have simply ceased to exist! Etc.

I note that it is easy to "poke holes" and/or pose seemingly clever questions about a field of knowledge about which one knows so very little!

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full play here, folks!

Regards,

41 posted on 05/17/2022 9:22:22 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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