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Chemists Claim to Have Solved Riddle of How Life Began on Earth

posted by on Friday March 20 2015, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the nope-aliens-did-it dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Leebert on Saturday March 21 2015, @02:26PM

    by Leebert (3511) on Saturday March 21 2015, @02:26PM (#160778)

    Care to tell us your take on this?

    Sure, I'd be happy to.

    Verse 27 starts the thought that is continued in verse 28: For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels...

    It's helpful to keep in mind that Christians, in general, believe that Jesus was simultaneously God and man (John 1:1, 1:14; 9:35-38). It's my interpretation that, when Jesus refers to himself as the "Son of man", he is referring to his human incarnation - Jesus of Nazareth. A clear instance of this is in Matthew 8:20 where he refers to himself in that way when pointing out that he has no home.

    With that in mind, my interpretation of the verse you quoted is that Jesus is referring to his "ascension", 40 days after the resurrection (Mark 16:19). It most certainly happened during the lifespan of most of the people who were witness to that statement, including the 11 remaining apostles (explicitly mentioned in Mark 16:14).

    The standard disclaimer of human interpretations being just as fallible as humans applies, and I am most definitely human.

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