Unwillingness to acknowledge the impossibility of abiogenesis has led to sixty plus years of failure in the field
https://osf.io/p5nw3/?fbclid=IwAR2X2n6gXCEhqACzWCzbOctKHsFeE7N_5yuCefQDN3V7SckTepG-Py4WJgw
Summary:
p.s. Thanks to Otangelo Grasso for addressing this study to us. Even it's a preprint, it offers valuable information and helps us understand why abiogenesis is impossible.
- Natural variation in environmental variables, particularly stream flow variation, works against natural processes providing a required steady flow of products.
- Randomness appears to prevent formation of usable building block amino acids and nucleotides.
- Randomness prevents formation of usable polymers of protein or nucleic acid.
- An autonomous, living cell needs all of its components to function properly, it cannot be divided beyond certain basic systems.
- Over the past sixty years, there have been reputedly thousands of experiments performed representing various postulated steps. None have been able to provide product usable as feedstock for its successor, which is the standard defining success within this analysis.
- Virchow’s aphorism and emergence work together to require the first cell to appear fully assembled from the beginning.
- Since information is an abstract entity, as is also the code mapping it to a medium, there are no physical laws capable of creating it.
- Nature itself provides conclusive evidence that natural processes are incapable of assembling a living cell. Wherever one looks there are problems.
- There is a large body of evidence—essentially all experiments in abiogenesis performed since its inception sixty plus years ago—that appear to be consistent with the hypothesis presented in this paper. Randomization prevails.
p.s. Thanks to Otangelo Grasso for addressing this study to us. Even it's a preprint, it offers valuable information and helps us understand why abiogenesis is impossible.
