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== Rebuttals of problems ==

== Rebuttals of problems ==

1. Chicken or the Egg problem regarding DNA and proteins:  Numerous theories exist as to how either RNA or proteins could have first arisen, but more prosaically, the fact that we do not know exactly how this may have happened does not mean it did not happen.  We don't know how gravity works either, but nobody's claiming it doesn't.  Also, see #4

1. Chicken or the Egg problem regarding DNA and proteins:  Numerous theories exist as to how either RNA or proteins could have first arisen, but more prosaically, the fact that we do not know exactly how this may have happened does not mean it did not happen.  We don't know how gravity works either, but nobody's claiming it doesn't.  Also, see #4

  2. Complexity of the cell: The complexity of the cell has nothing to do with abiogenesis, as abiogenesis doesn't concern itself with the evolution of the cell, just the genesis of the most basic forms of life.

2. Complexity of the cell: The complexity of the cell has nothing to do with abiogenesis, as abiogenesis doesn't concern itself with the evolution of the cell, just the genesis of the most basic forms of life.

  3. Catch 22 problem regarding oxygen and the early earth: Jason Dwarkin et al. discovered during experiments simulating conditions on early earth that surprising resulted in the formation of fluorescent bubbles capable of absorbing enough UV and converting it to visible light to protect organic molecules.  [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/3/815]

3. Catch 22 problem regarding oxygen and the early earth: Jason Dwarkin et al. discovered during experiments simulating conditions on early earth that surprising resulted in the formation of fluorescent bubbles capable of absorbing enough UV and converting it to visible light to protect organic molecules.  [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/3/815]

  4. Implausibility of the RNA World hypothesis. Altman and Cech won the Nobel Prize in 1989 for proving that RNA could act as a biocatalyst (like an enzyme) and sequence itself without proteins, proving the RNA world hypothesis plausible.  [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1989/press.html]

4. Implausibility of the RNA World hypothesis. Altman and Cech won the Nobel Prize in 1989 for proving that RNA could act as a biocatalyst (like an enzyme) and sequence itself without proteins, proving the RNA world hypothesis plausible.  [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1989/press.html]

  5. Chirality problem:  much like #1 there are a number of competing theories.  Example:  Toxvaerd [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5C0DD80C6FEE2ACD15DF6A7DDB86B8CD.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=335346]

5. Chirality problem:  much like #1 there are a number of competing theories.  Example:  Toxvaerd [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=5C0DD80C6FEE2ACD15DF6A7DDB86B8CD.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=335346]

  6. Polymerization problem: like #1 again, numerous theories.  example:  Oro and Stephen-Sherwood [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p805621h4774p6gt/]

6. Polymerization problem: like #1 again, numerous theories.  example:  Oro and Stephen-Sherwood [http://www.springerlink.com/content/p805621h4774p6gt/]

[[User:Xyrophile|Xyrophile]] 11:22, 5 June 2008 (EDT)

[[User:Xyrophile|Xyrophile]] 11:22, 5 June 2008 (EDT)