Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life

An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals — such as amino acids and nucleotides — have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of The Biological Bulletin, scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents."

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Re:The electro-dynamic field came first, of course

[nido]

As for the L-Field... are you suggesting that electromagnetism has a non-material cause?

There isn't much to matter - science now knows that even the hardest of atoms is mostly empty space. When you push your hand against the keys on your keyboard, the electrons at the outer edge of the shells of the atoms that make up your fingers don't actually touch the electrons of the atoms of the keys of your keyboard.... The electrons get close, but the electro-magnetic fields repulse one another.

Scientists are still looking for that fundamental material building block, but they haven't found it yet. Why assume that matter is the basis of all that is, when the latest scientific evidence is heavily in favor of Energy being the first cause?

Re:The electro-dynamic field came first, of course

[Black Parrot]

You need to learn what materialism is. The way you are trying to use the word is nothing like the way any educated person uses it.

Never mind educated people; I have trouble guessing what apologists for this or that mean by it in on-line forums. Today I've been on the verge of asking several posters what they mean by it.

Regarding the rest of your post, you're a fucking idiot.