Runewolf1973
Materialism/Animism
I'm inclined to agree with Subduction Zone here.
I read the article as pointing to a continuum from simplicity (he cites the hydrogen atom) to colossal biochemical complexity (he cites the brain). Life is at one end and nonlife at the other, but there's no crossover point but a large blurry crossover region which throws up blurry examples that fit our intuition of life but not our definitions.
And he also points out that this implies ways forward in the search for abiogenesis, and gives an example I wasn't aware of, which resulted in spontaneous formation of self-replicating complex chemicals ─ a very impressive trick:
the pair eventually produced two ribozymes that could replicate one another ad infinitum as long as they were supplied with sufficient nucleotides. Not only can these naked RNA molecules reproduce, they can also mutate and evolve
Thanks for the article, by the way ─ excellent reading.
And the issue with this is what?
You're agreeing with the creationist?
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