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Did Life Originate Underwater?
TuringTest writes "Sciencedaily reports a highly controversial new theory about the origins of life from Professor William Martin of the University of Dusseldorf and Dr Michael Russell of the Scottish Environmental Research Centre in Glasgow. The theory briefly states that inorganic cells where first, then living systems evolved inside these incubators which allowed an enough rich micro-environment. The small compartments would have been formed in iron sulphide rocks near hot, hydrothermal vents on the sea floor, not in the atmosphere. Wow, that would answer the chicken-egg problem."
I'd suggest reading Genesis chapter 1.
As all life is compartmentalized (and generally subcompartmentalized), then compartmentalization is a necessary event in the creation of Earthlike life. The theories that start with the ocean being an amino acid soup (and how did those amino acids get us the DNA we need for replication?) are all fine and good, but they really don't get at how clumps of lipids, proteins and DNA became self replicating and distinct from that clump over there.
This hypothesis, at least, is an attempt to get at the problem of compartmentalization of life, though it doesn't seem to involve lipids as elements in that compartmentalization, really. It is a necessary step, but not the whole picture.
Gray
I know that the gimps here pride themselves on their mean spiritedness, and snobbishness; God knows an original idea can't come from a mere reader, it had to be handed down from Einstein.
God I've been thinking about dropping this place because there is *NO* discussion here. Only a few pampered pets to get points and a bunch of wanna bes.
Im tired of this. Guys like you make me puke.