From: martinharran@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:38:07 -0700, Kalkidas  wrote:   
      
   >On 7/17/2025 11:37 PM, Martin Harran wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:46:47 -0700, Kalkidas  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 7/17/2025 11:23 AM, Martin Harran wrote:   
   >>>> 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-t   
   ur-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.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You have clearly still not grasped the principle that you cannot   
   >>>> insist that *must have been* the butler who killed her ladyship simply   
   >>>> because you have shown it is very unlikely that his lordship did it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Nature simultaneously destroys what it (allegedly) creates. And it   
   >>> destroys it faster than it (allegedly) creates it.   
   >>   
   >> If true then that means that the Intelligent Designer gets it wrong   
   >> more often than he gets it right.   
   >>   
   >   
   >What's "wrong" about it?   
      
   Most of his designs didn't stand up to nature (according to you).   
      
   >Do you think this universe was created to be   
   >some kind of amusement park?   
      
   No, why would you think that?   
      
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