Oh and viruses: No, all life did not evolve from viruses but I think you'd see similarities between modern viruses and primitive replicators in that they contain a chain of protein coding but are not cell-protected. Viruses have found a means to survive without cell protection in a post cellular world which primitive replicators had no such means and would not survive in normal conditions today - any replicator that began evolving today would quickly be food for cellular life.
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Originally posted by squealpiggy View PostThat's not a serious question so I don't need to answer it.
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Originally posted by Spartacus Sully View Postwell the protien shake part isnt, but like how does a strain of protien just replicate? can you link me to wiki articles on this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world_hypothesis
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Originally posted by squealpiggy View Post
and its much more likely that in the very beginning it was a combination of rudamentary RNA and protiens working together to create the first self replicating molecule.
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Originally posted by Spartacus Sully View Postfrom what ive found protiens arnt very likely to self replicate.
and its much more likely that in the very beginning it was a combination of rudamentary RNA and protiens working together to create the first self replicating molecule.
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Originally posted by squealpiggy View PostProteins self replicate all the time. DNA and RNA are made out of proteins.
here is an interesting article i came across
http://www.lifesorigin.com/self-repl...lecules-10.pdf
heres another interesting article
http://creation.com/self-replicating-enzymes
though a bit bias it does a good job at pointing out the issues involved in self replicating enzymes.Last edited by Spartacus Sully; 01-17-2012, 05:44 AM.
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Originally posted by Spartacus Sully View Postthey replicate from the state of DNA and RNA, not as free floating peptide strains.
here is an interesting article i came across
http://www.lifesorigin.com/self-repl...lecules-10.pdf
heres another interesting article
http://creation.com/self-replicating-enzymes
though a bit bias it does a good job at pointing out the issues involved in self replicating enzymes.
*cargo-cult science is a term based on the Cargo Cults of Papau New Guinea. When westerners first arrived on the island they built runways and control towers to enable planes to land. When the natives saw this they wanted to summon their own planes full of cargo from the sky so they built their own runways and their own control tower and even their own headsets and uniforms, out of local material and attempted to use them to call down these mysterious aircraft. In other words they gave the appearance of an airfield without actually understanding what an airfield was for.
Intelligent design is a cargo-cult science. It's total non-science but it's dressed up all sciencey. Its adherents believe that if you give the appearance of science then that makes it science. It isn't science because their alternative hypothesis is "magic sky wizard using his magic".
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