From what I've read, no one knows the environments of the early earth so no one can prove abiogenesis did or did not occur. I'm fine with that. I have only experienced the natural world so I'd lean toward a natural explanation of how life started even though I can't prove it. You don't have to accept it was natural but you also can't show me it was impossible. Like God himself, I can't prove He doesn't exist anymore than you can prove he does.Too long. Feel free to summarize.Don't feel too bad, most of what passes for discourse on USMB disappoints me. I do admit I don't recall your article on abiogenesis. Link? I'm most curious to see you prove something is impossible. Long chains of hydrocarbons are very common and naturally occuring, in fact we burn them in our cars. Not light years, billions of years.Or maybe you're making baby talk.You disappoint me yet again.
If you were to read my article on abiogenesis you would know that (1) a living organism smaller than an amino acid, much less one smaller than an amine, is impossible, that (2) organic molecules cannot and do not link up in any substantially or sustainably significant chains in raw nature for variously complex reasons, and that (3) even if they could, that would still be light years away from living organisms.
Sorry to disappoint you again.
My bad. I specified in my mind, but not in the post. I'm was thinking about those most pertinent to life. As for the article: Abiogenesis: The Unholy Grail of Atheism.
This is also way too long (with the comments) so don't expect even a summary.
You need to read the article or not, alang. It's a summarization of the most important experimental findings in abiogenetic research from Miller-Urey on.
I was not aware of the other, but do vaguely recall my discourse with an Objectivist some years ago.
I was actually trolling in that exchange, not at first, but later, after he failed to grasp the fact that I wholeheartedly agreed with him and Peikoff that “the actual is always finite”, or, more accurately, the actual value of the potentially infinite is always finite at any given moment in real being. But he kept insisting that the superlatively qualitative infinity of classical theism contradicted the quantitative infinities of mathematics, which is nonsense. But the real kicker was when another Objectivist chimed in at about that point insisting that 1/Infinity = 0, literally, which is also nonsense. The author of the piece you cited knew better, but wouldn’t correct his fellow Objectivist . . . so I basically went all Jupiter on them just for kicks.
I blessed them with a short story of sorts entailing a fictitious news report. It's a real hoot!
Hey, would you like to read it? It's not long at all and it's hilarious.