On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Stephen Paul King < [email protected]> wrote:
> The chicken or the egg problem is not hard to solve; just figure out how > to get something that is a little bit like both and has an evolution path > into one or the other. > That's why origin of life theorists turned to RNA, it can store information, not as well as DNA but it can store it. And unlike DNA which always has the same shape (a double helix) RNA can fold up into complex shapes so it can catalyze chemical reactions; it can't do it as well as proteins can but it can do it. The RNA world would be far simpler than our current world but it would still be pretty complex, so something even simpler probably came before it. Graham Cairns-Smith has a theory about that involving clay. > > But your missing my point here. There is an already existing > environment of physical stuff and interactions that is required for the > expression of the information associated with a genome. > And that existing environment of physical stuff came from the organism's parents, and the information on how to build that environment came from the organism's grandparents and ..... John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
