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...life itself came about by necessity – it follows from the laws of nature and is as inevitable as rocks rolling downhill.

The problem for scientists attempting to understand how life began is understanding how living beings – which tend to be far better at taking energy from the environment and dissipating it as heat – could come about from non-living ones.

But a new theory, proposed by a researcher at MIT and first reported in Quanta Magazine, proposes that when a group of atoms is exposed for a long time to a source of energy, it will restructure itself to dissipate more energy. The emergence of life might not be the luck of atoms arranging themselves in the right way, it says, but an inevitable event if the conditions are correct.

“You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant,” England said.

As Rosenberg notes, the idea that life could have evolved from non-living things is one that has been held for some time, and was described by the pre-Socratic philosophers. But England’s theory marks the first time that has been convincingly proposed since Darwin, and is backed by mathematical research and a proposal that can be put to the test.

SeattleGriz wrote:Top 10 problems with Evolution.

1: No Viable Mechanism to Generate a Primordial Soup
2: Unguided Chemical Processes Cannot Explain the Origin of the Genetic Code
3: Random Mutations Cannot Generate the Genetic Information Required for Irreducibly Complex Structures
4: Natural Selection Struggles to Fix Advantageous Traits into Populations
5: Abrupt Appearance of Species in the Fossil Record Does Not Support Darwinian Evolution
6: Molecular Biology has Failed to Yield a Grand "Tree of Life"
7: Convergent Evolution Challenges Darwinism and Destroys the Logic Behind Common Ancestry
8: Differences between Vertebrate Embryos Contradict the Predictions of Common Ancestry
9: Neo-Darwinism Struggles to Explain the Biogeographical Distribution of many Species
10: Neo-Darwinism has a Long History of Inaccurate Darwinian Predictions about Vestigial Organs and "Junk DNA"

As a bonus, I am going to throw in the Irreducible Complexity of E Coli.

Pussies.

Chizzang wrote:

89Hen wrote:

Chizzang wrote:

You can't be serious. You really think global warming is caused by a lack of pirates?!

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That graph doesn't include the golden age of piracy, so it's flawed IMO.

Ibanez wrote:

89Hen wrote: You can't be serious. You really think global warming is caused by a lack of pirates?!

Can you prove otherwise?

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That graph doesn't include the golden age of piracy, so it's flawed IMO.

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the golden age of piracy

GannonFan wrote:

Ibanez wrote: Can you prove otherwise?

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That graph doesn't include the golden age of piracy, so it's flawed IMO.

That's just the pro-climate change lobby trying to play with the data. If it did include

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the golden age of piracy

then we'd be right back to the hockey stick fiasco.

Ibanez wrote:

GannonFan wrote:
That's just the pro-climate change lobby trying to play with the data. If it did include

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the golden age of piracy

then we'd be right back to the hockey stick fiasco.

Not if you include privateers. Then it gets adjusted for government intervention.

HI54UNI wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
Not if you include privateers. Then it gets adjusted for government intervention.

Do we have to go back and change historical data to account for unknown pirate numbers in places that didn't have a way to count them?

Ibanez wrote:

HI54UNI wrote:
Do we have to go back and change historical data to account for unknown pirate numbers in places that didn't have a way to count them?

Yes. We usually think only of pirates operating in the Caribbean but forget about all the activity on the EC(b) Seaport.


And Africa. I blame Obama.

Ibanez wrote:

89Hen wrote: You can't be serious. You really think global warming is caused by a lack of pirates?!

Can you prove otherwise?

Spoiler: show

That graph doesn't include the golden age of piracy, so it's flawed IMO.

kalm wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
Yes. We usually think only of pirates operating in the Caribbean but forget about all the activity on the EC(b) Seaport.


And Africa. I blame Obama.

You guys are confusing pirates with privateers. Did the Kochs pay you say that?