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Originally Posted by Biochemist
You are joking aren't you? Are you actually suggesting that because we can copy DNA and insert it into a complex preexisting machine that transcribes DNA into protein or replicates DNA, that we have "created" life????
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No, that is not what I am suggesting, and you appear to be misrepresenting my actual position and then attacking that misrepresentation... aka... strawman.
I encourage to look here, as you've surely already done if you're deciding to present me with the same old tired argument:
The Harbinger. My Scientific Discussions of Evolution for the Pope and His Scientists
Also here:
A classification of possible routes of Darwinian evolution.
It is also interesting to note:
"In more recent work, Fox and his colleagues have shown that basic proteinoids, rich in lysine residues, selectively associate with the homopolynucleotides poly C and poly U but not with poly A or poly G. On the other hand, arginine-rich proteinoids associate selectively with poly A and poly G. In this manner, the information in proteinoids can be used to select polynucleotides. Morever, it is striking that aminoacyl adenylates yield oligopeptides when incubated with proteinoid-polynucleotide complexes, which thus have some of the characteristics of ribosomes. Fox has suggested that proteinoids bearing this sort of primitive chemical information could have transferred it to a primitive nucleic acid; the specificity of interaction between certain proteinoids and polynucleotides suggests the beginning of the genetic code." A. Lehninger, Biochemistry, 1975, pp 1047-1048
So this is how the genetic code gets started... Really, it's just simple chemistry.
