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>DNAunion
>Neither the maintenance
>of preexisting life nor the evolution of preexisting life are the real
>issues: these can be explained by relying on the highly-complex preexisting
>biochemistry of cells (but *still* require the continual struggle against the
>natural tendency of entropy to increase, and for reactions to reach
>equilibrium).
>
>The origin of life is different, as there were then no preexisting closed
>metabolic cycles, no specified complex information as found in genomes, and
>no complex enzymes. How did pools of simple, random, organic molecules,
>operated upon by undirected and uncontrollable energy sources only, become so
>ordered, complex, and *organized* to produce the first cells?
Chris
Autocatalyzing sets of molecules might easily be able to do evolve into
cells. Further, the first cells may well not have been the first *life.*
Evolution can occur without life, and life might occur without cells.
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