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Claim: The blueprint for life generated in asteroids

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At NASA:

Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery demonstrates that these genetic parts are available for delivery and could have contributed to the development of the instructional molecules on early Earth. The discovery, by an international team with NASA researchers, gives more evidence that chemical reactions in asteroids can make some of life’s ingredients, which could have been delivered to ancient Earth by meteorite impacts or perhaps the infall of dust.

News, “Could the Blueprint for Life Have Been Generated in Asteroids?” at NASA (April 26, 2022)

“Could have contributed to” … okay, keep talking.

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Martin_r: Then, Seversky, JVL and Co. might think, that the origin-of-life issue has been solved, or it is very close to be solved. You could have asked instead of just projecting your opinion of what you think we think onto us. Is that what being more scientific than us means?JVL
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Now if only the anti ID people would advocate for the “I don’t know” answer or “ Have we ever said we think the OOL question has been answered or is close to being answered” in textbooks. We have them on record here. Somehow, I don’t think so. Question: how many different threads has some anti ID person made a comment and then not responded when challenged. Is it infinite? Just specify an “n” and I can guarantee you will shortly discover “n+1”.jerry
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LoL! @ seversky- all OoL researchers NEED life to have arisen via blind and mindless processes! Theirs is a very heavily biased position. Natura can produce stones and yet nature cannot produce Stonehenge. Producing the building blocks of the building blocks of life is nowhere near producing a living organism.ET
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The finding doesn’t provide a smoking gun as to whether life on Earth got an assist from space or came about exclusively in the prebiotic soup in the planet’s infancy. But completing the set of nucleobases that make up life today, in addition to other molecules found in the sample, gives scientists who are trying to understand the beginning of life more compounds to experiment with in the lab. “This is adding more and more pieces; meteorites have been found to have sugars and bases now,” Dworkin said. “It’s exciting to see progress in the making of the fundamental molecules of biology from space.”
It's fascinating that they were able to form in the relatively harsher conditions of outer space at all.
Why do they mislead lay people over and over again ? Then, Seversky, JVL and Co. might think, that the origin-of-life issue has been solved, or it is very close to be solved.
How are we misleading people? Have we ever said we think the OOL question has been answered or is close to being answered? Just to be clear, I think the OOL question is a long way from being answered. There are some tantalizing hints about what may have happened but I think we still have a long way to go. Perhaps engineers, who apparently understand these things much better than biologists, biochemists or physicists, could provide some insights that other less competent researchers have missed.Seversky
April 28, 2022
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The blueprint for life is in the immaterial information that rules living organisms.ET
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Why do they mislead lay people over and over again ?
Because the devil is a reality and without God they will reclaim "the god status." .Watch World Economic Forum/World Health Organisation/ people acting like gods even if nobody elected them , except devil.Sandy
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It's easier for Darwinists to look to the heavens away from God to find answers for the origin of life, rather than look to the heavens and see God's work everywhere.BobRyan
April 28, 2022
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Textbook example of Darwinian brainwashing ... Obviously, they have to do this, to permanently feed their followers with new food ... a silly question: why don't take these NASA geniuses these 'informational units', go to lab, and create life out of it ? Or, even better, why don't take these NASA geniuses a death cell (all life components are already there) and create life out of it again ? After 150 years of Darwinism, nothing changed.... NOTHING ... over and over again these desperate attempts ... What is wrong with this guys ? Normally, these are very smart people, no doubts, so what is wrong with them ? Why do they mislead lay people over and over again ? Then, Seversky, JVL and Co. might think, that the origin-of-life issue has been solved, or it is very close to be solved.martin_r
April 28, 2022
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Borrowing from the alien bank to pay down the credit card.polistra
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Nope. A bit is a bit is a bit and no more.Nonlin.org
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way, way, way smaller than what would be needed But I thought DNA was clever and recombined in all sorts of clever ways to compensate for that?es58
April 27, 2022
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Too bad the DNA, RNA cannot possibly be the blueprint of life. This is easily verified by simply measuring the size of the data in the DNA which is way, way, way smaller than what would be needed. Not even enough to hold your phone or car blueprint. And those are infinitely simpler than any organism.Nonlin.org
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Nucleobases are naturally occurring compounds on earth - why should it be ‘exciting’ to find them in meteorites if they are here on earth already?Belfast
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