Re: Re: my current view on evolution and emergent behavior

On 12 Apr 2007 06:29:11 -0700, "Throwback" <throwback8@xxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

On Apr 10, 9:56 am, j.wilki...@xxxxxxxxx (John Wilkins) wrote:
Throwback <throwba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 9, 6:56 pm, "limitationsofscience"
<limitationofscie...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The origin of the Universe, and of life itself, occurred in the
distant past under conditions not necessarily experimentally
reproducible and therefore not able to be studied in a strictly
scientific manner.

http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/miller_urey_experiment.html

Of interest is the claim that life was of extraterrestrial origin:

"On September 28, 1969, the Murchison meteorite that fell near
Murchison, Victoria, Australia was found to contain over 90 different
amino acids, 19 of which are found in Earth life. Comets and other icy
outer-solar-system bodies are thought to contain large amounts of
complex carbon compounds formed by these processes. The early Earth
was bombarded heavily by comets, possibly providing a large supply of
complex organic molecules. This could imply an origin of life outside
of Earth, which then migrated here."

At best it indicates amino acids could have been produced outside of
earth. I rather doubt they were in anything living when they arrived.

For clarification, for those who didn't grasp it, such
as yourself: the claim was that 'THE BUILDING BLOCKS
OF LIFE, WHICH THEN BECAME LIFE, may be of
extraterrestrial origin', which clarified point, you addressed
in the first sentence in your reply above.

Since so many of these building blocks are so wide spread in
interstellar dust clouds, it is almost certain that the early Earth
was rich in these molecules.

--
Bob.

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