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To: one_less who wrote (154861)2/17/2009 6:44:54 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
Life could not have begun without the presence of hydrocarbons...hence the search elsewhere ....

Self replicating organic molecules have and are being produced....and that's in a clean lab. Early conditions on earth would have included a huge mess of chemicals. There's an old adage in Organic Chemistry......it says, "don't use clean glassware, you'll get better results..."