New Theory On Origin Of Life
by Gerard 4 Replies latest watchtower bible
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IronGland
That is interesting Gerard. They need a new science editor though. Charles Darwin came up with Natural Selection to explain the diversity of life on Earth. I don't know why they are attributing abiogenesis through a primordial soup to him. Whats interesting to me about these hydrothermal vents is the extreme conditions around them still support life. Life has been found as deep as a kilometer below the Earth's surface, chemical autotrops using (if memory serves) iron oxides as part of their energy source. These minerals are believed to be fairly common on Jupiter's moon Europa (i.e. more so than on Earth) based on estimates of the original composition and a lesser degree of differentiation in a smaller body. But the most likely energy source is volcanic heat. That's what deep ocean life
on Earth uses, and if Europa has liquid oceans, it probably has volcanic activity and bacterial life as well. (Some heat source is probably required to keep an ocean liquid, and tidal forces probably produce volcanic activity on Europa, as they certainly do on Io, although to a lesser degree.) -
funkyderek
Charles Darwin came up with Natural Selection to explain the diversity of life on Earth. I don't know why they are attributing abiogenesis through a primordial soup to him.
Because of what Darwin wrote in a private letter to Joseph Hooker in 1871:
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine (sic) compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were found.
But this was merely a private speculation which Darwin never made public and had nothing to do his theory of natural selection. The CBS article shouldn't have described this as a theory, it was merely a personal conjecture which may not even have originated with Darwin.
From what was known in Darwin's day it was a plausible hypothesis, but with the benefit of 130 years of research it seems less so. -
metatron
Protein folding may be a highly complex non reducible phenomena. Read "The Presense
of the Past".Life may be the same. We don't worry about why an electron or wave came into existence.
We just accept that it 'is'. I am increasingly convinced that life is no different.
In this universe, it "just is". I don't accept the idea that molecules just bump into
each other randomly and create new life.It isn't random. It's part of the physics of the universe, no different from observed
laws. It's something the universe does.metatron
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Tashawaa
Growing up as a "good little JW" - I never "got educated" - however, I have always been interested in nature/science/archeology programs. Much of it goes over my head, but I grab "tid-bits" here and there.
My own conclusion, is similar to Metatron, that "life" has always existed. Perhaps in our joint human consciousness we know this and because its unexplainable, we label it God. I believe "life" is common, and marvel at the areas it survives. I often wonder if its recycled, and therefore, would explain the universal belief in mankind that we don't "die". I have no idea whether our "consciousness" survives with this life force though....