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"Origins of Life" - From Amino Acids to Apes with iPods

dailygalaxy.com — For over fifty years we've been figuring out life's starting point, finding how a planet-sized chemical tank turned into tigers, sharks and expressways (but not at the same place, at least until we get Michael Bay to accept our screenplay.) It all started in 1953, when one man made primordial soup in a jar - and we've been improving on the.....

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  • Hetman, on 07/16/2009, -2/+12Why does it have to have a meaning?
  • MxM111, on 07/16/2009, -0/+9Hint: You can use the mirror.
  • EddiePotato, on 07/16/2009, -0/+7I say we march on Washington demanding they create a bacterium form from scratch.
  • Astark, on 07/16/2009, -1/+7From soup in a jar to dick in a box.
  • Garganturat, on 07/16/2009, -0/+6"Studies have shown in exhaustive detail how amino acids combine to create larger units called nucleotides. "

    Lies.

    Nucleotides are the units that make up nucleic acid polymers (RNA/DNA) while amino acids are the units that make up proteins/peptides.

    I think there's still a few steps missing here.
  • jchrome, on 07/16/2009, -1/+6What is the meaning of a meteor? How about the meaning of a mountain? The meaning of a tree? Of bacteria? Once you understand why this is the wrong question to ask, you have taken the first step towards understanding.

    It just is. Stuff exists. You exist too, but that will not always be the case. Now what are you going to do with the time you have in the *only*, very, very finite life that you have? That is a much better question and one that only you can answer.
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 07/16/2009, -1/+6Ok great. Now create us an easy single cell life form, say. We can't get by forever on these glowing research reports.
  • SpinningHead, on 07/16/2009, -0/+342

    If you need to be more metaphysical, think of sentient life as the way the universe experiences itself. We are not separate from the universe any more than the characters in our dreams are separate from us.
  • SpinningHead, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Yes, its very irrational for us to believe some guy on the internet who said he believes this friend of his who claims to have experienced magical blister healing.
    I was raised Catholic. I remember hearing about the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In college, I happened to be in Mexico City and decided to just check the thing out which is supposed to be an actual image of Mary that she embedded on some guy's cloak. If you've ever seen it, you understand the disappointment and understanding that comes with facing such a myth.
  • SpinningHead, on 07/16/2009, -2/+5RainyDayNinja
    I once saw the flying spaghetti monster making love to a unicorn above the temple of Solomon. What do you think that means?
  • inactive, on 07/16/2009, -2/+5I'd like to know why god isn't busy curing all sorts of horrible congenital illnesses, but apparently has the desire to heal some silly ***** that beat a drum too much...
  • Iveestyle, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2Good call BotchaMcCoola
  • ousthouse, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2tooth + cola + electricity
  • Tr3mulant, on 07/16/2009, -1/+3Enough of this nonsense. Believing someone's blisters were healed magically does conflict with many people's worldviews. These worldviews are usually called reality. Based on the reality worldview, things like this are impossible. There's nothing rational about entertaining fantastical elements as a means to explain the world we live in.
  • L4mb, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2Awesome Simpsons episode.
  • nmoulana, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2Living, reproducing, and evolving cells or gtfo.
  • RainyDayNinja, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1With all the hand-waving in that article, you'd think there was a fly in the room.
  • mparker21311, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Yeah, but can you turn your monitor into a mirror?
  • Tr3mulant, on 07/16/2009, -3/+4Oh you silly, we all know god created everything with a wink and a wiggle of his nose or some other form of magic.
  • MacEnvy, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2SeaPeople + SeMen = Seaciety
  • rick9999, on 07/16/2009, -0/+0jus tryin to be sarcastic
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 07/16/2009, -2/+2Divine magic that over-rules or changes physical laws? I'd have to see some very strong proof of that.
  • inactive, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1only 10 years eh! Good Stuff! I guess Bible was right after all - Earth IS 6000 years ole! I BELIEVE!
  • elpez7, on 07/16/2009, -0/+0I clicked to see a picture of an ape with an ipod. Then I realized I could just look in the mirror.
  • ronindigg, on 07/17/2009, -1/+1God did it
  • RainyDayNinja, on 07/16/2009, -3/+2@Tr3mulant: Let me get this straight. Someone asks for evidence of the supernatural. I relate an eyewitness account, which I believe to be such evidence. And you claim that the evidence is invalid because we already "know" that the supernatural doesn't exist? If you can't see how incredibly illogical that position is, then there's nothing else I can say, except that I have some wonderful beachfront property you might be interested in...

    @SpinningHead: I'm not trying to claim that every supposed miracle is valid. But the validity (or lack thereof) of that claim has no bearing on the validity of my separate claim.
  • inactive, on 07/16/2009, -3/+1Apes with iPods, -cough cough-
  • rick9999, on 07/16/2009, -2/+0Apes with Ipods???, I gotta take a picture of this!
  • inactive, on 07/17/2009, -2/+0I know I may get ripped for this, but oh well, here I go. I think that God and science can co-exist together. I think that since we are human and fallible that we get in there an muck it up by inserting our human opinion and/or take God out of the equation altogether. I think if the religious world and the scientific world could stop fighting and just work from a common ground, that it might open up a whole realm of possibilities that have yet to be touched on. But I digress.... *winces waiting for the incoming verbal assaults*
  • RainyDayNinja, on 07/16/2009, -5/+2@BotchaMcCoola: I have a personal friend who was working as a missionary in Mexico. Her hands were covered with blood blisters from playing the djembe drum so much, so the rest of the group prayed over her. Then they watched as the blisters dissipated in a matter of seconds. How is that?
  • RainyDayNinja, on 07/16/2009, -4/+1If you actually saw it, then I think it means you were on drugs. But if you can dismiss someone's eyewitness account of events (such as the account of my friend and all the other witnesses) as a lie, based purely on the fact that it conflicts with your current view of the world, and without any counter-evidence, then you cut yourself off from any possibility of rational inquiry or learning.

    But if you have any alternative explanation of what she saw, I'd be happy to hear it.
  • EddiePotato, on 07/16/2009, -6/+2Or perhaps with a very crafty combination of spacetime and primal forces. I personally find it difficult to offhandedly mock the genius behind what has apparently brought us into being.
  • Presbyterian, on 07/16/2009, -8/+3But what's the meaning?.

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