Tiberius
Well-Known Member
If what you say is true, please explain to me how abiogenesis worked--I will then recommend you to the Nobel committee for that prize.
Do you know what an enzyme is? It is a chemical that can change the rate of a chemical reaction, but not actually be used up in that chemical reaction.
So, imagine you have some water, and in it are molecules of chemical A and chemical B. Every so often, a molecule of A will bump into a molecule of B and they will bind together. But this relies on randomness and could be pretty slow.
Now, imagine there is an enzyme in the water. It takes A and B and joins them together. Because of this enzyme, A and B are joined together much faster. So, we would see that the reaction that joins A and B has now increased. Enzymes are usually named for whatever chemicals they work on, with a suffix like "ase." So the enzyme that work on lactose is called Lactase, for example. In our case, since we are talking about an enzyme that works on A and B, we could call the enzyme Abase.
But, now here's the thing... What if Abase was just a molecule of A joined to a molecule of B? Then Abase is going around making copies of itself. And if that copying process is ever altered, then selective pressures will have an effect. Maybe a molecule of abase is able to pick up a molecule of A even better, for example. And then we even have something that natural selection can influence, and we've got evolution. And that's just with basic chemicals, the sort of thing that would have been all over the place. Given enough time, this process would lead to more and more complex arrangements of molecules until it starts being the sort of thing we'd call life.
Now, did it definitely happen this way? Maybe, maybe not. We can't really know unless we develop time travel and go back in time to take a look. But what I presented here is entirely consistent with known laws of chemistry. So I don't see how you can claim abiogenesis is implausible.