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Scientists Create RNA From Primordial Soup

Posted by timothy on from the that's-notional-primordial-soup-to-you dept.

Kristina at Science News writes "The RNA world hypothesis proposed 40 years ago suggested that life on Earth started not with DNA but with RNA. Now a team of scientists bolsters this hypothesis, having assembled RNA in the lab from a mixture that resembles what was likely the primordial soup. 'Until now,' Science News reports, 'scientists couldn't figure out the chemical reactions that created the earliest RNA molecules.' The new work started the RNA assembly chemistry from a different angle than what earlier work had tried."

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  1. Clearly... by MachDelta · · Score: 3, Funny

    A wizard did it.

  2. Deja vu by SnarfQuest · · Score: 3, Funny

    a mixture that resembles what was likely the primordial soup.

    Deja vu: I just had primordial soup for lunch.

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    1. Re:Deja vu by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Deja vu: I just had primordial soup for lunch.

      Great, just great. Do you know how many potential species you just wiped out? The right to lifers are going to have you up against the wall in a nanosecond.

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    2. Re:Deja vu by John+Hasler · · Score: 3, Funny

      > I just had primordial soup for lunch.

      Isn't that what was in that fridge in San Jose?

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  3. Re:Ignoratio Elenchi by digitalunity · · Score: 5, Funny

    God crushing you nonbelievers with rain of sulfur and fire would settle the matter nicely.

    I'm not holding my breath though.

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  4. Godless Science loses *another* battle! by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sutherland says [...] 'The key turned out to be the order that the ingredients are added and the way you put them together -- like making a soufflé.'"

    How much clearer does it need to be made to you amoral materialists that cooking dinner needs *a Chef*?

    The only thing I regret is that Sutherland compared God's Work to making a "soufflé". Couldn't he have used a good Christian American recipe?

    Like omelette!

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    1. Re:Godless Science loses *another* battle! by onkelonkel · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Those Frenchmen don't even have a word for entrepreneur"

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  5. Re:Ignoratio Elenchi by Polumna · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on, man, this is slashdot. You could have made your whole point with just the words: "Star Trek V" ;D

  6. You forgot... by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny

    d) God is actually a woman. Powerful, but insecure, and she needs you to show her how much you love her all the time. If you don't, she'll get depressed and eat her weight in mint-chocolate chip ice cream, in which case she'll end up omnipresent in more ways than one.

  7. He didn't forget by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Likes to play mind games' was option c)

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  8. Re:Ignoratio Elenchi by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    A false... trilemma...