Origins
Favorite quotes from this article:
"In the very beginning, you couldn't have genetic material that could copy itself unless you had chemists back then doing it for you," Shapiro told Live Science"
and then :
"Shapiro is skeptical: Something had to form the two proteins. But he thinks this discovery might point in the right direction. "We have to let nature instruct us," he says."
Do lets.
posted by InterestingPhysics @ 10:37 AM
2 Comments:
Incredibly cool article. I've often found that the 'irreducible complexity' argument, when applied to the primordial earth environment, seemed a bit fishy...these seems to be a beginning patch into the answer for that...
Interesting indeed. For my lack of knowledge about all things chemistry, I find myself drawn to these Irreducible complexity arguments deriving from molecular biology. I may have mentioned to you before the strikingly similar argument in mathematics called the incompleteness theorem or Godel's theorem. If you replace "First principles" with "Laws of physics and chemistry" and "proofs" with "evolutionary paths" then you have essentially the same argument which is to say that while irreducible compexity is a viable principle, it can't really be proven except in theory. (You can't take an organism and claim with all certainty that it could not have evolved to that state) But the battle rages on. Rage on battle, rage on.
On a separate note, I really like your new logo.
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