Chemists see first building blocks to life on Earth

[CaliforniaCowboy]

Wed May 13, 5:05 pm ET
PARIS (AFP) – 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090513/sc_afp/sciencebiologylife_20090513210508

[Verb]

I'm surprised they haven't found it sooner. Heck, it was only 6000 years ago. ;)

[Erick]

I'm surprised they haven't found it sooner. Heck, it was only 6000 years ago. ;)

I am not surprised, if the human brain in all it's wonder can invent a devices that can determine the age of something over 3 Billion years old, why couldn't they "discover" how life was created? ;)

Call me when a man jumps out of a petry dish.

[CaliforniaCowboy]

Call me when a man jumps out of a petry dish.

ha, ha...


I'm pretty sure that I saw a blurb that Al Gore and Michael Moore are teaming up to make a movie about that very topic; evidently they actually got that to happen.... really... no really.

[FloridaPoke]

If you are strong enough in your religious faith to withstand a purely scientific analysis, a must read for anyone is "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne. There is so much evidence and so many kinds of evidence that one would have to be either willfully ignorant or blinded by faith to think otherwise. I, for one, believe in evolution but also believe in devine intervention in the process and I do not believe the two are mutually exclusive.

[OSUFan]

Wed May 13, 5:05 pm ET
PARIS (AFP) – 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090513/sc_afp/sciencebiologylife_20090513210508

So we all came from ribose sugar and phosphate. So where did these three ingredients come from? Oh, I know... from billions and billions of years of nothing. sheesh

[Verb]

If you are strong enough in your religious faith to withstand a purely scientific analysis, a must read for anyone is "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne. There is so much evidence and so many kinds of evidence that one would have to be either willfully ignorant or blinded by faith to think otherwise. I, for one, believe in evolution but also believe in devine intervention in the process and I do not believe the two are mutually exclusive.

That sounds fascinating. I'm going to see if I can find it.

I can't help but think that the God of earth and space, of all places and all times, doesn't need a magic wand and silly parlor tricks. Creating life in God's own way and God's own time is impressive enough for me!

[Erick]

If you are strong enough in your religious faith to withstand a purely scientific analysis, a must read for anyone is "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne. There is so much evidence and so many kinds of evidence that one would have to be either willfully ignorant or blinded by faith to think otherwise. I, for one, believe in evolution but also believe in devine intervention in the process and I do not believe the two are mutually exclusive.

Say, that's a great way of saying "if you don't believe like I do, then you must be an idiot!"

I don't believe in petri dish-evolution. Science may have theories, but God invented science.

[CaliforniaCowboy]

If you are strong enough in your religious faith to withstand a purely scientific analysis, a must read for anyone is "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne. There is so much evidence and so many kinds of evidence that one would have to be either willfully ignorant or blinded by faith to think otherwise. I, for one, believe in evolution but also believe in devine intervention in the process and I do not believe the two are mutually exclusive.

I'm tempted to check it out based on your recommendation, but I'm having a very hard time getting past the pretentious title.

I might be more interested if he didn't reach a conclusion in the title and named it something more innoculous like, "Evolution Facts" or something like that.

I have a hard time with books that reach a conclusion and then spend all their time trying to lead you there.

I'm not necessarialy "religious", but I'm conservative in religious views. I simply don't believe in "macro evolution", it's a bunch of contrived nonsense.

... just like "global warming".