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I'm surprised abiogenesis hasn't attracted more crackpots. there's no embarrassing dinosaur bones to deny or antibiotic resistance to explain away. lots of hint
by sterlind 5y ago
I'm surprised abiogenesis hasn't attracted more crackpots. there's no embarrassing dinosaur bones to deny or antibiotic resistance to explain away. lots of hints left in virions, archaea and ribozymes, but still a tremendous amount of complexity in LUCA to explain. I guess there's panspermia, but that just kicks the can down the road, and asteroids are a viable explanation for at least e.g. sourcing amino acids.
maybe because nothing's established enough yet to be dogma, and the field isn't practically important other than just being neat.