>...show me a digital watch......in the unfashionable west end of the galaxy is a world whose inhabitants are so amazingly primitive they still think digital watches are a neat idea...
We pick water because it's a superb solvent and 99.999% of all meaningful chemical reactions require a solvent.
We pick amino acids because they're very good at forming complex protein chains, which allows for complex structures, which allows for complex chemistry, which allows for complex biological processes, which is required for self-replicating autotrophic organisms.
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Actually, impurities do more to lower freezing points than pressure. Ocean water freezes at -20 C because of the salt content, not because of ocean pressure.
In fact, even under 300 Mpa (Mega Pascals) pure water still freezes at 250 kelvins (about -23 degrees c).
In this case, the ice formed has an unusual structure known as Ice III.
We assume life requires water because of its characteristics as a solvent. Any solvent will do, water just happens to be the best in working with organic compounds because of its strong prejudice regarding polar and non-polar molecules.
Boy, is that an example of Terrestrial Arrogance.
Who says that the Terran bugs (who would have never experienced contact with Martian life) wouldn't get chewed to pieces by the Martian bugs?
Some time ago Richard Dawkins got in some sort of debate with a creationist on the probabilities of one of Shakespeare's plays spontaneously writing itself from an alphabet soup.
The creationist did a computer model that showed it would take trillions of years for the book to spontaneously self-create.
Dawkins shot the argument down by applying selection pressures to the text. With selection pressures applied, the creation time was just a few hundred iterations.
The point here is, you HAVE to have continual selection pressures on mutations or you are simply dealing with random permutations. Any mutations that are "hidden" from selection pressure by not being expressed will NOT follow an evolutionary development, but will, instead, simply follow random probabilities.
So, in the theory presented by this article, the creationist wins his argument because Dawkins can't apply selection pressures to the mutations until, say, 2/3rds of the book is ALREADY complete.
Sorry, guys. This is just a re-worked Punctuated Equilibrium and it will be abandoned for the same reasons.
No one writes 68K software anymore. Your emulation has to run PPC software written for OS 9. No one has made a decent PPC emulator for the x86 architecture because the speed has always stunk.
They don't have to make a new tape. You can edit the existing tape. Sheesh, it's brain-dead simple to do.
1. Load the tape into an editing machine
2. Spool the tape to the correct start/end points of the scene to be cut.
3. Slice the tape at both points at a 45 degree angle.
4. Discard cut tape.
5. splice the video tape using celluoid (scotch) tape.
6. Trim the scotch tape to the video tape width.
7. Repeat steps 1-6 above until the tape is edited as desired.
8. Rewind and play in VCR.
Sheesh. You act as if CleanFlicks is Ted Turner, modifying the ORIGINAL film footage.
For crying out loud, they are editing a purchased copy of the original film as requested by a customer.
Intelligence is not a hazardous material.
Read the next paragraph on the web page:
We will buy the movie for you...
To rent, you have to become a "share" owner in the company. Ever heard of a credit union? Same priniciple.
Actually, Clean Flicks will also sell you unedited movies. They offer the editing as a service to movie owners who wish to use it.
You basically buy the movie, and Clean Flicks edits it for you.
I have just as little patience for naturalists who screw up their facts as I do for creationists who mess up theirs.
The experiment you referenced never made any strands of DNA or RNA or anything resembling the two. What it did make were some fragments of amino acid chains.
If you took the time to read a decent text on organic chemistry, you'll find that DNA and RNA and their pre-cursor chemicals are unstable outside of a living cell or virus protein sheath. Most have a half-life of only a few minutes.
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>...show me a digital watch... ...in the unfashionable west end of the galaxy is a world whose inhabitants are so amazingly primitive they still think digital watches are a neat idea...
We pick water because it's a superb solvent and 99.999% of all meaningful chemical reactions require a solvent. We pick amino acids because they're very good at forming complex protein chains, which allows for complex structures, which allows for complex chemistry, which allows for complex biological processes, which is required for self-replicating autotrophic organisms.
Actually, impurities do more to lower freezing points than pressure. Ocean water freezes at -20 C because of the salt content, not because of ocean pressure. In fact, even under 300 Mpa (Mega Pascals) pure water still freezes at 250 kelvins (about -23 degrees c). In this case, the ice formed has an unusual structure known as Ice III.
We assume life requires water because of its characteristics as a solvent. Any solvent will do, water just happens to be the best in working with organic compounds because of its strong prejudice regarding polar and non-polar molecules.
Boy, is that an example of Terrestrial Arrogance. Who says that the Terran bugs (who would have never experienced contact with Martian life) wouldn't get chewed to pieces by the Martian bugs?
Some time ago Richard Dawkins got in some sort of debate with a creationist on the probabilities of one of Shakespeare's plays spontaneously writing itself from an alphabet soup. The creationist did a computer model that showed it would take trillions of years for the book to spontaneously self-create. Dawkins shot the argument down by applying selection pressures to the text. With selection pressures applied, the creation time was just a few hundred iterations. The point here is, you HAVE to have continual selection pressures on mutations or you are simply dealing with random permutations. Any mutations that are "hidden" from selection pressure by not being expressed will NOT follow an evolutionary development, but will, instead, simply follow random probabilities. So, in the theory presented by this article, the creationist wins his argument because Dawkins can't apply selection pressures to the mutations until, say, 2/3rds of the book is ALREADY complete. Sorry, guys. This is just a re-worked Punctuated Equilibrium and it will be abandoned for the same reasons.
The planet would be kind of lonely with you here all by yourself.
No one writes 68K software anymore. Your emulation has to run PPC software written for OS 9. No one has made a decent PPC emulator for the x86 architecture because the speed has always stunk.
They don't have to make a new tape. You can edit the existing tape. Sheesh, it's brain-dead simple to do. 1. Load the tape into an editing machine 2. Spool the tape to the correct start/end points of the scene to be cut. 3. Slice the tape at both points at a 45 degree angle. 4. Discard cut tape. 5. splice the video tape using celluoid (scotch) tape. 6. Trim the scotch tape to the video tape width. 7. Repeat steps 1-6 above until the tape is edited as desired. 8. Rewind and play in VCR.
Sheesh. You act as if CleanFlicks is Ted Turner, modifying the ORIGINAL film footage. For crying out loud, they are editing a purchased copy of the original film as requested by a customer. Intelligence is not a hazardous material.
Read the next paragraph on the web page: We will buy the movie for you... To rent, you have to become a "share" owner in the company. Ever heard of a credit union? Same priniciple.
Actually, Clean Flicks will also sell you unedited movies. They offer the editing as a service to movie owners who wish to use it. You basically buy the movie, and Clean Flicks edits it for you.
I have just as little patience for naturalists who screw up their facts as I do for creationists who mess up theirs. The experiment you referenced never made any strands of DNA or RNA or anything resembling the two. What it did make were some fragments of amino acid chains. If you took the time to read a decent text on organic chemistry, you'll find that DNA and RNA and their pre-cursor chemicals are unstable outside of a living cell or virus protein sheath. Most have a half-life of only a few minutes.