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I find it funny that the comments here split across: “I have no doubt that life emerged from an RNA first world” and “I have no doubt that life emerged from
by briancl 5y ago
I find it funny that the comments here split across:
“I have no doubt that life emerged from an RNA first world”
and
“I have no doubt that life emerged from a metabolism first world”
Last I checked, nobody should have absolute certainty for how life began. Progress comes from skepticism. Have more doubt!
- usrbinbash 5y agoI do not doubt things just to doubt them however. Doubt has to be reasonable.
- pfdietz 5y agoGiven the instability of ribose even in plain pH 7 water, and the indiscriminate results of abiotic carbohydrate synthesis processes, I find the RNA-first hypothesis unlikely. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2368016 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2368016