Posted by
InchDeep on Monday, July 28, 2008 6:28:02 PM
Because it is, and always will be, a lie. I should not have to keep guessing on how it started. That's not how facts work, just theory's. Even poorly constructed ones like Evolution. Six days baby. Learn it, live it, love it.
Diamonds May Have Jump-Started Life on Earth
one of the greatest
mysteries in science is how life began. Now one group of researchers
says diamonds may have been life's best friend.
Scientists have long theorized that life on Earth got going in a primordial soup
of precursor chemicals. But nobody knows how these simple amino acids,
known to be the building blocks of life, were assembled into complex
polymers needed as a platform for genesis.
Diamonds
are crystallized forms of carbon that predate the oldest known life on
the planet. In lab experiments aimed to confirm work done more than
three decades ago, researchers found that when treated with hydrogen,
natural diamonds formed crystalline layers of water on the surface.
Water
is essential for life as we know it. Also, the tests found electrical
conductivity that could have been key to forcing chemical reactions
needed to generate the first birth.
When primitive molecules landed on the surface of these hydrogenated diamonds in the atmosphere of early Earth,
a few billion years ago, the resulting reaction may have been
sufficient enough to generate more complex organic molecules that
eventually gave rise to life, the researchers say.
The research, by German
scientists Andrei Sommer, Dan Zhu, and Hans-Joerg Fecht at the
University of Ulm, is detailed in the Aug. 6 issue of the American
Chemical Society's journal Crystal Growth & Design. Funding was
provided by the Landesstiftung Baden-Wurttemberg Bionics Network.
Another theory, called panspermia, holds that life on Earth arrived from space, as organisms rained down inside tiny meteors or giant comets.
The new research does not conclusively determine how life began, but it lends support to one possible way.
"Hydrogenated diamond advances to the best of all possible origin-of-life platforms," the researchers contend.
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