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[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by erich

We may be a more Phosphate based life form than a carbon based one


Origin of life: building an RNA world from simple chemicals - Ars Technica

I'm not sure I get it

So they made a soup that helped RNA form more complex RNA?
Or did they make RNA from scratch in the soup?
This was helped by saturating the soup with phosphate that kept the pH on the level
(How did it do that? Does it do that in other places like soil?)

Well maybe not a soup; more like a receipie? (Creationists should love this--from the Supreme Chef?)

The big stumbling block seems to be the fact that the authors kept one of the chemicals out of the reaction mix until the third step of the synthesis.
I'm curious to see what kind of yields they might get if they put all the reactants together at once