From: me22over7@gmail.com   
      
   On 18/07/2025 5:25 am, Kalkidas wrote:   
   > On 7/16/2025 10:44 PM, MarkE wrote:   
   >>  From this recent EN article: https://evolutionnews.org/2025/07/new-   
   >> article-from-james-tour-undermines-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.   
   >   
   > Note that the replies to your post offer no refutation of any of the   
   > points of the paper, Just name-calling and genetic fallacies.   
   >   
      
   Noted; not unusual. Pity - Athel could add some content to this discussion.   
      
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