From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:44:28 +1000   
   MarkE  wrote:   
      
   >  From this recent EN article:   
   > https://evolutionnews.org/2025/07/new-article-from-james-tour-   
   ndermines-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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   ID has no science; it doesn't explain anything. It's classic God of the   
   Gaps.  But you've been told before. PS get a better news source.   
      
      
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