Life's origins and "Missing Ingredient"

[Dancefortwo]

Interesting article from one of  Bucky Balls favorite scientist, Szostak.  https://www.livescience.com/64355-missin...tification  

 Modern RNA, alongside its sugar and phosphate backbone, is made of four main building blocks: nucleobases called adenine (A), cytosine ©, guanine (G), and uracil (U).

But it turns out that early RNA may have had one nucleobase that isn't part of the modern form.

   

And because I know some of you won't read the link, here's a little more.....  

...the researchers added another chemical, called inosine, into the mix, instead of the guanine-based molecule. After that, the researchers were surprised to find that RNA could form and replicate slightly more accurately than it does in a mix with guanine

Even if scientists solve the origins of life, religious crazies will scream that scientists are satanic or some such nonsense.  But it's just a matter of time before scientists nail the origins of life. 

[Mark]

Interesting article from one of  Bucky Balls favorite scientist, Szostak.  https://www.livescience.com/64355-missin...tification  

 Modern RNA, alongside its sugar and phosphate backbone, is made of four main building blocks: nucleobases called adenine (A), cytosine ©, guanine (G), and uracil (U).

But it turns out that early RNA may have had one nucleobase that isn't part of the modern form.

   

And because I know some of you won't read the link, here's a little more.....  

...the researchers added another chemical, called inosine, into the mix, instead of the guanine-based molecule. After that, the researchers were surprised to find that RNA could form and replicate slightly more accurately than it does in a mix with guanine

Even if scientists solve the origins of life, religious crazies will scream that scientists are satanic or some such nonsense.  But it's just a matter of time before scientists nail the origins of life. 

Yep fundies can be counted on to ignore anything that contradicts their predetermined truths.  Fortunately for them most encounter or collect very little information.  Like Trump supporters they tend to be fact avoidant.  

Fortunately there are also some who are less fundamentalist who are trying to drag the YEC's and their ilk into the 20th century.  (I know we're in the 21st century, but baby steps is better than no steps.)

[Thumpalumpacus]

Another example of scaffolding, I bet.

[Gwaithmir]

“Science is for this world, for the use of man. It is perfectly candid. It does not try to conceal, but to reveal. It is the enemy of mystery, of pretense and cant. It does not ask people to be solemn, but sensible. It calls for and insists on the use of all senses, of all the facilities of the mind. It does not pretend to be 'holy' or 'inspired.' It courts investigation, criticism and even denial. It asks for the application of every test, for trial by every standard. It knows nothing of blasphemy and does not ask for the imprisonment of those who ignorantly or knowingly deny the truth. The good that springs from the knowledge of the truth is the only reward it offers, and the evil that results from ignorance is the only punishment it threatens. Its effort is to reform the world through intelligence.” (Robert G. Ingersoll, Myth and Miracle)

[Dānu]

That one is going in my scrapbook.  

[Dancefortwo]

That one is going in my scrapbook.  

Mine too. It'll be in my quote keeper.