Leo123
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How do you know that?
You can't know that, there's no way you could tell.
How would you tell?
There's lots of elements we know nothing about.
I just pointed out one of them in the previous post.
It's called a theory for a reason. Otherwise it would be called a fact.
Just because there's missing information doesn't mean the theory is wrong. It just means there's missing information.
Turns out there's lots of molecules that perform the exact same function as FtsZ. I mentioned two of them in the previous post. There are dozens more. Exact sequence doesn't matter, function is what matters. That's part of the beauty of the theory. There are many paths to the same result. One looks at the things that are conserved. That tells us what's important. Eyes are conserved, but retinas are all over the place. Oculomotor muscles are conserved, but gaze is all over the place. Chromosome segregation is conserved, but the molecules that do it are all over the place. Structural support in cells is highly conserved, but the exact nature of the cytoskeleton varies widely. These observations are important. There is no perfect engineering solution, nature tries different things and some of it works and some of it doesn't. If man were meant to fly we would have had wings, right?
OK I may have exaggerated but, how about this? Make a primordial soup, Ensure it is organism free and put it in a sterile enclosure and wait. Will the chemicals in your soup create an organism?
I agree we are talking theory and there is missing information. I would just like to see someone run an experiment as I outlined. Dr. James Tour has some good info. Here's a link to one of his videos. He knows what he is talking about. He goes over his past videos and explains in great detail what has been done and what needs to be done.
"We are clueless on the origin of life"
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