Re: Just burns, doesn't it?

NashtOn wrote:

No matter how desperately you would *love* for somebody to find the connection between lifeless matter and self replicating, vibrant life and how it all connects to Humans, it hasn't happened, and it really *BURNS*. It's very obvious.

You mean it hasn't happened yet. It is a matter of time before someone synthesizes a replicating molecule from inorganic components. But even if such a thing were done in a laboratory, this would not prove that life on this planet started that way. It would only prove that natural processes are sufficient for producing a replicating molecule made from non-living material.

The cosmos has had a long time and a lot of space to "experiment" with non-living matter. From hydrogen and helium and a trace of lithium every single element has been produced by natural processes working according to physical laws. At no time was God necessary to make the 92 natural elements. They happened in the belly of large stars. As the late Carl Sagan would say stuhr-stuff was produced by the explosion of billyuns and billyuns of stuhrs. No need for a creator in all of this. It was just matter and energy doing its thing. There is no reason to believe that replicating molecules, the precursor to living stuff, was made by anything other than natural processes. However we will probably never know exactly for sure how life originated on this planet (or even if life originated on this planet). The conditions that existed three billion years ago no longer obtain so we can only guess what it was like way back then.

Bob Kolker

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