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A team of chemists working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, at Cambridge in the UK believes they have solved the mystery of how it was possible for life to begin on Earth over four billion years ago. In their paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry, the team describes how they were able to map reactions that produced two and three-carbon sugars, amino acids, ribonucleotides and glycerol—the material necessary for metabolism and for creating the building blocks of proteins and ribonucleic acid molecules and also for allowing for the creation of lipids that form cell membranes.
Scientists have debated for years the various possibilities that could have led to life evolving on Earth, and the arguments have only grown more heated in recent years as many have suggested that it did not happen here it all, instead, it was brought to us from comets or some other celestial body. Most of the recent debate has found scientists in one of three chicken-or-the-egg first camps: RNA world advocates, metabolism-first supporters and those who believe that cell membranes must have developed first.
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-chemists-riddle-life-began-earth.html
[Abstract]: http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem.2202.html
(Score: 2) by anubi on Saturday March 21 2015, @07:54AM
I was just a kid when that Miller-Urey experiment you recalled made the news.
It was everywhere. Seemed like we were just around the corner from making life, or at least, that seemed what the tabloids of the day were saying.
And the preachers were predicting doom from the pulpit. I guess they have been doing it for about 2,000 years now. God will destroy man before he lets man create life.
Thanks for bringing that little gem up.
That experiment went a long way with me with showing I was made from the same things the Earth is made of. But made me realize even more how I am an assembled pile of these building blocks. There appears to be nothing in me of any particular value... actually I am probably of negative value, as I will pay for someone to cart me off and do what has to be done to spent bodies.
For these chemicals to become me in and of themselves seems tantamount to parts in a junkyard self-assembling into an operable car.
As for what God wants... well he sure got mad at several people in the Scriptures for not honoring their birthright... would I be pissed if I designed a cat with claws - and he wouldn't go catch a mouse? If I am created with the ability to think and I do not pursue, aren't I wasting a resource given me?
I read many times in the Scriptures that we are referred to as the temples of God. We may find ourselves to be the very vessel God lives in - and we've known God all along and failed to recognize Him...
I am getting a strong idea God lives in US. Maybe another word for God is Compassion. ( This is pure conjecture ). There is so much I am ignorant of that I am hesitant to even discuss it, but hopefully others of like mind share their conjectures as well and some signal may emerge from all this ignorance. No one needs to refer to me as an ignoramus because I have already claimed that. I'll lay my cards on the table for what they are worth.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]