A debate about debates
POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 22:13
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"I laid out what I thought was the winning argument a couple of posts ago. An early pro-biotic soup would not create complex life forms, it would create simple self replicating molecules,"
That is the most ridicules post I have ever read(outside of some of my own...when I'm joking just to watch the clenched as*holes on this board). How on earth do molecules reproduce? Sexually or Asexually? What a tool you are. Oh, and an Idiot.
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Kaneman, do you know what makes up DNA? They're basically strands of small nitrogen-containing molecules (nucleosides) zippered to another strand by hydrogen bonds (a very weak bond that occurs between molecules like alchohol and water) Only FIVE nucleosides make up all known DNA (adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and sometimes uracil) and even they're not terribly unique since adenine and guanine are based on one molecule (purine) and cytosine, uracil and thymine are based on another molecule (pyrimidine). Altho the eventual structure becomes complex because of repetition, the basic chemistry is fairly tame.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Kaneman, do you know what makes up DNA? They're basically strands of small nitrogen-containing molecules (nucleosides) zippered to another strand by hydrogen bonds (a very weak bond that occurs between molecules like alchohol and water) Only FIVE nucleosides make up all known DNA (adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and sometimes uracil) and even they're not terribly unique since adenine and guanine are based on one molecule (purine) and cytosine, uracil and thymine are based on another molecule (pyrimidine). Altho the eventual structure becomes complex because of repetition, the basic chemistry is fairly tame.
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And? They just decide to reproduce to do what? How?.....I have a Bio degree, I teach animals how to act like humans for a living...I don't get it...nor do you...you think you know, but you don't ...there must be a god(energy, alien)
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Since we humans are so afraid of death, I think the hardest thing to grasp is that life is - well - viral. Because the function of life is to take over non-living stuff and incorporate it, it outcompetes non-living random arrangements. Once life happens by accident, however it happens and in whatever form it takes, it will grow and swallow the non-living environment.
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They reproduce just because they can. One strand acts as a template for the other. Kind of like prions, or viruses. "Why" ("what for") is the wrong question because it pre-supposes a purpose, and it eventually gets either "Because I said so" or "God done it". I suppose the correct question is "how", and maybe other useful questions are "what", "when" and "where".
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Sig, allow me to think about that for a bit.
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Take your time Kaneman. I'm just about tapped out on biology and philosophy.
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Originally posted by kaneman:
Sig, allow me to think about that for a bit.
Why start now?
From what I've read, you haven't done any thinking so far in this thread; it'd be a wonder of wonders (and would probably make your brain happy) to get those neurons firing for once.
...well it's true.
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That claimed bio major ... how could anyone with even the barest exposure to education be so ignorant? A 101 entry course should have cleared up a chunk of the obvious mental confusion. But for crying out loud, as it is with that blather bio majors everywhere are getting sullied by association. OUCH
One of my degrees is bio.
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