From: me22over7@gmail.com   
      
    From this recent EN article:   
   https://evolutionnews.org/2025/07/new-article-from-james-tour-un   
   ermines-a-pillar-of-origin-of-life-theories/   
      
   'In comparison to a protein’s half-life, the rate of polypeptide chain   
   elongation under prebiotic conditions is very long. Yang et al. (2025)   
   identify numerous barriers to sustained polypeptide growth, including   
   the formation of non-peptide linkages and cyclic structures, stringent   
   environmental requirements, and unfavorable thermodynamics. Their   
   analysis establishes that the rate of growth must be far smaller than   
   one added amino acid per chain per day."   
      
   "Even assuming one addition each day, synthesizing a protein of 200   
   amino acids would require over six months. However, the growing chain   
   would almost certainly degrade in a much shorter time span. The   
   challenge is even greater for RNA, which has a significantly shorter   
   half-life and encounters additional chemical and structural hurdles   
   during formation."   
      
   Paper here: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/biocosmos-2025-0010   
      
   No doubt this paper will be critiqued and disputed, but it is I think an   
   example of the ongoing scrutiny and developing fundamental challenges to   
   OoL. My prediction is these will continue to emerge, weakening   
   materialistic abiogenesis and strengthening ID's core claim.   
      
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